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The Heart's Progress
A Memoir
by Claudia Bepko
ISBN: 0140243666
ISBN-13: 9780140243666
Format: Paperback
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Summary
Although she has subtitled her book "A Lesbian Memoir", Claudia Bepko's story is not that of an activist, and is refreshingly devoid of the heavily partisan flavor normally found in books with similar subtitles. Instead, she has written an engaging and widely accessible account of her life, from her early Catholic upbringing, first love and brief marriage, through her 18-year committed relationship with another woman and its dissolution.
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"A rare and unflinchingly honest story of love as it has never been told before. If you have a heart, this book will open it." -- Harriet Lerner
" 'The Heart's Progress' gives the reader the wise insights of a traveller through the many realms of love. This is a report from the field that you wont want to put down." -- Barbara Lazear Asher
"The publication of 'The Heart's Progress: A Lesbian Memoir' is cause for celebration....This memoir is the model from which I hope others will certainly grow. And it will be a good model: the story is told in aching, honest detail. And it is beautifully written." -- Susan Fox Rogers
-- Lambda Book Report
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Penguin USA
Published date: 1998
Size: 5.25 x 8.25 inches
Weight: 0.35 pounds
Pages: 227
Publisher's Notes
Like many lesbians, Claudia Bepko was a young woman when she first admitted to having homosexual feelings—but it took a lifeless heterosexual marriage and a fierce attraction to a female colleague before she was able to live openly in a relationship with another woman. In this moving memoir, she relives the painful and poignant awakenings she experienced in her early life: from her blue-collar Catholic upbringing and alcoholic father to her exhilaration and confusion as she entered college during the height of the sexual revolution where she encountered her first lovers—Molly, a fellow student, and David, whom she would eventually marry. "The different among us tell our stories because we are all only human and so much need a witness to the truth," writes Bepko. Having built a career in the early years of the women’s movement, she found the courage to question her heterosexuality. Approaching middle age in the midst of "lesbian chic," she finds herself finally able to move from an identity shrouded in otherness to a life that celebrates the freedom and normalcy of loving whomever one is destined to love.
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