As you desire by Melanie Moore. the first novel of Madeline Moore was selected as this year's winter of Spencer's lesbian fiction contest judge Sandy boxer said the beautiful novel Renaissance with wisdom Madeline Morris prose never falter in his graceful brave poetic strength rich with surprising industry rooted in irony as you desire because best lesbian writing of Paris in the thirties as you desire the story of personal healing set in Paris during student Revelation revolution in the late sixties Elizabeth is the University professor on sabbatical because of the dissolution and her relationship with her therapist a hopeful beginning turns to chaos and confusion from which the temporary feels rescued by a kindly doctor but he has secrets to hide this book is courageous thoughtful intimate relation revelation a one woman's journey from pain to peace Marilyn Moore is an associate professor of English literature and you see that Santa Cruz and the author of the short season between two silences the mystical and political and a novels of Virginia Woolf as well as numerous articles essays and poems. there's novel brings to life examination too phenomenal instead until recently have been carefully and most universally hidden incense and therapist sexual abuse Marilyn Moore's pros like her poetry is full of images that satisfy the reader she is a linguistically self-conscious writer and an honest one the dark edge carried by her novels tends to keep us in the straw enthralled it should been instead of throat if this first novel is any indication of the pros I have no doubt that she will take place as one of our outstanding lesbian writers oh cool!