Selby Wynn Schwartz, in her debut, dares to envision the possibilities and chaotic selves of the twentieth-century women, sometimes queer. ‘It was what X was not.’ She writes on women’s fantasies and actions that didn’t desire young men or their ‘hot breaths’ at the time, contrariwise - associate and companion. It centres on the Italian poet Lina Poletti, who ‘has …
