{"product_id":"terminal-velocity-9780679750321","title":"Terminal Velocity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"In 1970 I realized that the Sixties were passing me by. I had never even smoked a joint  or slept with anyone besides my husband. A year later I had left Nicky  changed my name from Ellen to Rain  and moved to a radical lesbian commune in California named Red Moon Rising  where I was playing the Ten of Hearts in an outdoor production of Alice in Wonderland when two FBI agents arrived to arrest the Red Queen . . .\"  So begins Blanche McCrary Boyds brilliantly raucous account of self-styled feminist outlaws  their desperate adventures and extraordinary fates. Ellen  the narrator of Boyds previous novel  The Revolution of Little Girls  this time pierces the heart of the sexual revolution in her quest to find a woman hero or--by default--to become one.  Ferociously paced  Terminal Velocity delineates six wonderfully engaging characters: Artemis Foote  for whom being rich  talented  and beautiful is a kind of game; Jordan  a messianic fugitive who becomes Ellens lover; Amethyst Woman  a Marxist\/Leninist dentist; Ross  a red-diaper baby and now a columnist for Ramparts; and Pearl  an art history professor turned hippie. At the center of this vortex is Ellen  prior to her transformation happily married and a rising young editor at a genteel publishing house in Boston. Together with these women  she is caught in the political and moral tailspin of the Sixties  living in a sexualized world-without-boundaries that leads them  eventually  to destruction  acceptance  and even redemption.  Deadpan funny and exquisitely moving  Terminal Velocity brings Boyds lyricism  humor  and depth to material largely unexplored in American literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67931002011701,"sku":"ByrdShop_0679750320","price":67.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780679750321.jpg?v=1794211444","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/terminal-velocity-9780679750321","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}