Powell's Books - Valencia by Michelle Tea

Don't Miss

More at Powell's

Original Essays | December 12, 2009

The Courage of Others

0 comments By Alexander McCall Smith

I have recently written a novel about life in England during the Second World War. I felt some concern before I tackled this theme — the War... Continue »

$16.76 Sale Hardcover add to wish list

La's Orchestra Saves the World
Alexander McCall Smith

$6.50

List price: ~~$13.00~~

Used Trade Paper

Ships in 1 to 3 days

Qty	Store	Section
1	Hawthorne	Literature- A to Z

More copies of this ISBN:

Used, Trade paper, $8.00

This title in other formats:

Valencia

by Michelle Tea

ISBN13: 9781580050357
ISBN10: 1580050352
Condition: Worn Condition or Underlined
All Product Details

Only 1 left in stock at $6.50!

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

Valencia is the fast-paced account of one girl's search for love and high times in the drama-filled dyke world of San Francisco's Mission District. Through a string of narrative moments, Tea records a year lived in a world of girls: there's knife-wielding Petra, who introduces Michelle to a new world of radical sex; Willa, Michelle's tormented poet-girlfriend; Iris, the beautiful boy-dyke who ran away from the South in a dust cloud of drama; and Iris's ex, Magdalena Squalor, to whom Michelle turns when Iris breaks her heart. Valencia conveys a blend of youthful urgency and apocalyptic apathy.

Synopsis:

The fast-paced account of one girl's search for love and high times in the drama-filled dyke world of San Francisco's Mission District, Valencia conveys a blend of youthful urgency and apocalyptic apathy.

What Our Readers Are Saying

Add a comment for a chance to win!

Average customer rating based on 2 comments:

: dreams-n-digital, December 7, 2007 (view all comments by dreams-n-digital)
Wow. Graphic, quirky, and written in a very matter-o-fact fast paced style. It'll catch and hold your attention, funny and more than a bit shocking, like a train wreck of drama, sex, love and comedy.
Was this comment helpful? | Yes | No
(4 of 8 readers found this comment helpful)

report this comment

: crowyhead, October 31, 2007 (view all comments by crowyhead)
A fantastic, funny, loving book full of bike messengers, strippers, druggies, tattoos, drinking, and loads and loads of kinky queer sex. Not for the faint of heart, but even the faint of heart should read it.
Was this comment helpful? | Yes | No
(7 of 12 readers found this comment helpful)

report this comment

View all 2 comments

Product Details

ISBN:: 9781580050357
Author:: Tea, Michelle
Publisher:: Libri
Location:: Seattle, Wash. :
Subject:: General
Subject:: California
Subject:: Fiction
Subject:: San Francisco (Calif.)
Subject:: Lesbians
Subject:: San francisco
Subject:: Lesbian
Subject:: Love stories
Subject:: Bildungsromane.
Series Volume:: 1316
Publication Date:: 20000401
Binding:: TP
Language:: English
Pages:: 216
Dimensions:: 8.34x5.28x.56 in. .47 lbs.

Other books you might like

$5.50 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

Deliver Me from Nowhere
Tennessee Jones
$10.50 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

Dahlia Season: Stories and a Novella
Myriam Gurba
$10.50 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

The Chelsea Whistle
Michelle Tea
$5.00 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

Mirrors
Marianne K Martin
$10.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

Tipping the Velvet
Sarah Waters
$7.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

The Well of Loneliness: A 1920s Classic of Lesbian Fiction
Radclyffe Hall

Related Aisles

RSS 2.0
Log Off

Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.