Richard Brautigan

An Historical Romance, 1966

The Abortion

Vida brings her manuscript to a San Francisco library for unpublishable books, a book about her gorgeous body in which she feels uncomfortable. The reclusive librarian makes her feel comfortable, until a trip to Tijuana changes them in ways neither of them had ever expected.

Charlotte Dann

I don't like it when a man writes a story from a man's perspective about a woman's body, especially when it includes many passages like "The author was a girl about twelve years old, just entering into puberty. She had lemon-sized breasts against a green sweater. She was awakening to adolescence in a delightful way". Pervy and patriarchal, not to mention extremely mundane.

The Abortion An Historical Romance, 1966

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