Set in the late 1950s, this is the story of Evelyn Hall, an English Professor, who goes to Reno to obtain a divorce and put an end to her disastrous 16-year marriage. While staying at a boarding house to establish her six-week residency requirement she meets Ann Childs, a casino worker and fifteen years her junior. Physically, they are remarkably alike and eventually have an affair and begin the struggle to figure out just how a relationship between two women can last.
Desert of the Heart examines the conflict between convention and freedom and the ways in which the characters try to resolve the conflict
- ISBN10 0863581714
- ISBN13 9780863581717
- Publish Date 4 September 1986 (first published 31 December 1964)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 March 1997
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint Thorsons
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 244
- Language English