Critical Essay by Bertha Harris
"Rubyfruit Jungle" is basically a breathless rush through some of the primary colors of the English language to tell the story of Molly Bolt: born female...
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Critical Essay by Jane Rule
For those who think fiction is not the place to sermonize, Rubyfruit Jungle is often too blatantly preachy. Molly, the main character, has been a radical lesbian from birt...
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Critical Essay by Terry Curtis Fox
Rubyfruit is the thrice-told 20th-century tale: Sensitive member of outside group heads toward American society and lives to tell the tale. We've had it from...
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Critical Essay by John Fludas
Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle was an upstart in the publishing world…. Six of One is a bright and worthy successor.
Nickel, a young woman whom we ju...
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Critical Essay by Bertha Harris
