- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Kensington (Mar 1 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0758203683
- ISBN-13: 978-0758203687
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.9 x 2.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 635 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,484,083 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Scarlett Faye is precocious from the start, declaring early her intent to escape her poor, drab Pennsylvania hometown. Focused on her distant prize, distrust of closeness marks her relationships, and only when high-school graduation looms can Scarlett yield her heart, soul, and body to the luscious Gina, only to be quickly separated from her. Finally away at college, the poor-but-lovely scholarship student attracts the attentions of roommate Sissy, who is wealthy, cultured, passionately sexual and emotional, and generous. Savvy and pragmatic without being conniving, Scarlett negotiates the horror of Sissy's parents into a full scholarship at a better school in Savannah, the place she chooses for her spiritual home as she hones her writing and dreams of the riches to come. Perhaps her most important writing is her correspondence with Gina, now living in Europe, and eventually love comes full circle in this lesbian coming-of-emotional-age story filled with the poignant, wry, and humorous observations of youth's yearnings, joys, and follies. Whitney Scott
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Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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Wickedly funny, Chasing Lightning: The Amorous Adventures of Scarlett Faye Turner tells a provocative tale of love and one girl's chameleon sexuality. Defiant and unconventional, the novel's protagonist takes the reader on a daring journey of personal discovery.
A seductive charmer, Scarlett Faye Turner leaves her poor, southern roots in the late sixties searching for what she calls The Big Three: power, fame and money. En route to fulfilling her ambitions, Scarlett has one erotic adventure after another. In time she realizes her affairs are nothing more than a way to avoid her true feelings about beautiful Gina Jamison, a girl she fell for in high school and later spent one unforgettable summer with in Paris.
Edgy. Erotic. Passionate. Chasing Lightning is a bold love story of a different kind. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Really Good Read,
This review is from: Chasing Lightning: The Amorous Adventures of Scarlett Faye Turner (Hardcover)
When I bought this book, I was a little daunted by its 400+ pages. Too many lesbian novels of that length drag and have useless filler. Not this book. I read it in two sittings and loved it. It is literate and well-written. I chuckled often at the humor.Scarlett Fay Turner is a fascinating character from the time we meet her as a child to the the end of the book where she is finally becoming a woman. The views of her romance with Gina from high school on show us a deeply complicated and sometimes conflicted young adult. It seems odd that she doesn't have any qualms about using Sissy and Delores, because in many ways she is a very moral person. What she does seems to slide off an almost Teflon moral surface. Even though I didn't like her using other women to move ahead, I liked her at all times. This was a real page turner for me. Clustered around Scarlett are a variety of well-drawn women. Even the snitch from the dormitory held my attention. What a pisser! And she got what she deserved. That York had the courage to include Scarlett's heterosexual experimentation was important. All to often writers create characters who live in a world without men. That's not reality. Many of us do experiment with men when we're young; so this is true to life (though most of us don't do threesomes with our ex-lovers and their current lovers.) My heart broke for Gina and Scarlett when Scarlett's anger forces her to end the relationship. I did get vexed with her when she allowed her stubbornness to end communications. Unfortunately, that is too often a part of maturation. York left me wanting more and to me that is the mark of a good writer.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not as expected it,
By "alesgirl" (Miami, Fl United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Chasing Lightning (Paperback)
Well let me tell you why I chose three stars for this novel. First of all I have been looking for lesbian novels and I found this one really interesting under the lesbian categories but sadly when I read it I found three different sexual encounters with men also so because of that I think it is not worth for us to read it unless you skip those pages: 34, 222-223, and 356. If the author did not include those encounters with men and that threesome in this book maybe it would have become one of the good ones. So in general is a good story tender and innocent at first and wild and sad at the end. It is well written and it involves you in a way that you actually want to know what is coming next.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Shake well and enjoy!,
By Tess Harding (LA CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Chasing Lightning (Paperback)
Take one part Jackie Collins, mix in liberal portion of Judith Krantz, add a dollop of Sex in the City--and oh,yeah, baste heavily with Margaret Mitchell--and you've got Chasing Lightning.For anyone who loves a good "airplane", beach, or "curl up on your sofa and munch bittersweet chocolate read", this book is for you! It's a non-stop, partying, around the world romp that will leave you exhausted, speechless, and spent. What a ride! Rachel you've done it again. Can't wait to see the flick!
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