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Author: Barbara G. Walker

Antiope, a warrior woman from a goddess-worshiping clan battling the Greek invasions, is mysteriously transported to modern New Jersey, where she is "adopted" by 50ish writer Diana. Feminist scholar Walker ( Women's Rituals , HarperCollins, 1990) amusingly and discouragingly chronicles the clash between matrifocal warrior values and the 20th century. Through Antiope's startled eyes, the author scrutinizes, questions, and satirizes everything from attitudes about sexuality and the dangers of excessive religiosity to makeup and feminine hygiene. As is often the case in utopic/dystopic novels, the commentary occasionally overwhelms the story. Nonetheless, Amazon spins a good yarn with an intriguing time/place dilemma. - Gail Wood, Montgomery Coll. Lib., Germantown, Md. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Author: Joanna Russ

"As hard and mean and fine as Flannery O'Connor. . . . I wish that everyone would read Joanna Russ' books." -Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina

"Joanna Russ offers a gallery of some of the most interesting female protagonists in current fiction, women who are rarely victims and sometimes even victors, but always engaged sharply and perceptively with their fate." -Marge Piercy

"A stunning book, a work to be read with great respect. It's also screamingly funny." -Elizabeth Lynn, San Francisco Review of Books

"A work of frightening power, but it is also a work of great fictional subtlety. . . . It should appeal to all intelligent people who look for exciting ideation, crackling dialogue, provocative fictional games-playing in their reading." -Douglas Barbour, Toronto Star

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