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Article: Cavedweller.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- March 17, 1998
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For her first novel since 1992's Bastard Out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison has chosen to work in a tried-and-true genre -- the "wrong side of the tracks" potboiler. Cavedweller is a woman's book through and through, filled with women's suffering, women's strength, women's survival. These are pages damp with women's crying and weeping and sobbing and turning away to hide the tears they can't keep back any longer -- over rejections from their daughters or mothers, their misspent pasts, their renounced addictions, and the loss of their men. There's also much gossip shared, many confidences exchanged, and deep friendships formed.
These are women who come to each ...