Lover

Bertha Harris was the author of two other novels, Confessions of Cherubino and Catching Saradove. She also co-authored The Joys of Lesbian Sex with Emily L. Sisley.

"Harris, an American equivalent of Monique Wittig, ... is ingenious, sardonic, parodic. [She] explores the various roles women have played: grandmother, mother, daughter, sister, wife and second wife, businesswoman in man's clothing, prostitute, factory worker, movie star, muse and tutelary spirit, warrior, artist, fake saint, martyr." - Catharine R. Stimpson "The introduction [is] by turns funny, sad, moving, and outrageous...[Harris] illuminates the New York women's art and literary scene of the late sixties and seventies; the introduction alone is worth the price of the book. Altogether, Lover is everything a seduction should be: smart, unpredictable, witty, provocative—and sexy." - Carolyn Allen, University of Washington "Violent, funny, beautiful, intelligent." - Jane Rule "Bertha Harris has created a woman's world as relaxed and sisterly and funny as Didion's is tense and controlled. [She] presents a utopian vision of a world where women are in charge of themselves, and where, it is nice to note, they are very good company indeed." (The New York Review of Books) "A wonder...I was seduced by its tantalizing elusiveness, its audacity, its sheer brio...a spellbinding, verbal sleight of hand as satisfying as it is serpentine." (The Washington Post Book World)