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Author McMan, Ann.

Title Backcast : a novel / Ann McMan.

Imprint Ann Arbor : Bywater Books, 2015.

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  F MCMAN    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Adult Fiction  FIC MCMAN    Check Shelf
Description 375 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Summary "When sculptor and author Barb Davis is given an NEA grant to pair original feminist sculptures with searing first-person essays on transitions in women's lives, she organizes a two week writing retreat with twelve of the best, brightest, and most notorious lesbian authors in the business. But in between regularly scheduled happy hours and writing sessions, the women enter a tournament bass fishing competition, receive life coaching from a wise-cracking fish named Phoebe, and uncover a subterranean world of secrets and desires that is as varied and elusive as the fish that swim in the waters of Lake Champlain. Set on the beautiful shores of Vermont's Lake Champlain, Backcast is richly populated with an expansive cast of endearing and outrageous characters who battle writer's block, quirky locals, personal demons, unexpected attractions, and even each other during their two-week residency. For Barb and each of her twelve writers, the stakes in this fast-moving story are high, but its emotional and romantic payoffs are slow and sweet. Filled with equal parts laugh-out-loud humor and breathtaking pathos, Backcast serves up a sometimes irreverent, sometimes sobering look at the hidden lives of women, and how they laugh, love, lose, and blunder through their own search for meaning.
Subject Lesbians -- Fiction.
Authors -- Fiction.
Champlain, Lake -- Fiction.
Vermont -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Subject Authors. (OCoLC)fst00821688
Lesbians. (OCoLC)fst00996540
North America -- Lake Champlain. (OCoLC)fst01244711
Vermont. (OCoLC)fst01204305
ISBN 1612940633 (trade pbk.)
9781612940632 (trade pbk.)
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