{"product_id":"naked-in-the-promised-land","title":"Naked In The Promised Land By Faderman, Lillian","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis modern classic of LGBT writing includes an introduction from Carmen Maria Machado, author of \u003ci\u003eHer Body and Other Parties\u003c\/i\u003e, and a new afterword from Lillian Faderman.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Born in 1940, Lillian Faderman is the only child of an uneducated and unmarried Jewish woman who left Latvia to seek a better life in America. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLillian grew up in poverty, but fantasised about becoming an actress. When her dreams led to the dangerous, seductive world of the sex trade and sham-marriages in Hollywood of the fifties, she realised she was attracted to women, and that show-biz is as cruel as they say.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDesperately seeking to make her life meaningful, she studied at Berkeley; paying her way by working as a pin-up model and burlesque dancer, hiding her lesbian affairs from the outside world. At last she became a brilliant student and the woman who becomes a loving partner, a devoted mother, an acclaimed writer and ground-breaking pioneer of gay and lesbian scholarship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTold with wrenching immediacy and great power, \u003ci\u003eNaked in the Promised Land \u003c\/i\u003eis the story of an exceptional woman and her remarkable, unorthodox life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57664863994238,"sku":"NW9781448217533","price":10.57,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781448217533.jpg?v=1783553554","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/naked-in-the-promised-land","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}