<div><p>Frances, a 1950s housewife, becomes bored with her suburban life and enrolls in a class at the local community college. When she meets Bake, a butch lesbian, her life completely changes. In thrall to a forbidden world of martini lunches, late nights at queer bars, and a sexual passion she never knew was possible, Frances must chose between the safety of heterosexual marriage, or the dangers of life on the edge of society.</p> <p>In this age of <I>Mad Men</I> fever, the re-issue of <I>Stranger on Lesbos</I> comes at the perfect moment, invoking an era we can't help but romanticize yet despise.</P> <p><B>Valerie Taylor</B> is the pen name of Velma Young (1913–1997), author of the lesbian pulp classics <I>Whisper Their Love</I> (1957), <I>The Girls in 3-B</I> (1959), <I>World Without Men</I> (1963), <I>Journey to Fulfillment</I> (1964), and <I>Ripenin</I>g (1988). With the $500 proceeds of her first novel, <I>Hired Girl</I> (1953), Taylor bought a pair of shoes, two dresses, and hired a divorce lawyer. After leaving her husband, she kicked off a prolific career as the author of pulp fiction novels, poetry (under the name Nacella Young), and romances (under the name Francine Davenport). A longtime activist for gay and lesbian rights, she was a co-founder of Mattachine Midwest and the Lesbian Writers Conference in Chicago.</P><BR></DIV>