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Backcast, by Ann McMan
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"I love Ann McMan."—Dorothy Allison, National Book Award finalist for Bastard Out of Carolina
When sculptor and author Barb Davis is given an NEA grant to pair original feminist sculptures with searing first-person essays on transitions in women's lives, she organizes a two week writing retreat with twelve of the best, brightest, and most notorious lesbian authors in the business. But in between regularly scheduled happy hours and writing sessions, the women enter a tournament bass fishing competition, receive life coaching from a wise-cracking fish named Phoebe, and uncover a subterranean world of secrets and desires that is as varied and elusive as the fish that swim the inland sea.
Set on the beautiful shores of Vermont's Lake Champlain, Backcast is richly populated with an expansive cast of endearing and outrageous characters who battle writer's block, quirky locals, personal demons, unexpected attractions, and even each other during their two-week residency. For Barb and each of her twelve writers, the stakes in this fast-moving story are high, but its emotional and romantic payoffs are slow and sweet.
Filled with equal parts laugh-out-loud humor and breathtaking pathos, Backcast serves up a sometimes irreverent, sometimes sobering look at the hidden lives of women, and how they laugh, love, lose, and blunder through their own search for meaning.
Ann McMan is the author of five novels, including Jericho and Aftermath, and two short story collections. She has won two Golden Crown Literary Awards and her novel, Hoosier Daddy, was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist.
Backcast, by Ann McMan
- Amazon Sales Rank: #88091 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-11-16
- Released on: 2015-11-16
- Format: Kindle eBook
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful. I felt like a bass caught on Quinn's lure By Elizabeta Despite many years of reading Amazon reviews, I've never written one -- until now. I purchased the Kindle edition of "Backcast" to read on four flights over a long weekend, fully expecting all the distractions of air travel to keep me from more than a few chapters. Not so. I felt like a bass caught on Quinn's lure, unable to twist away from this fascinating book. I was swept up in this story of lesbians at a writers' retreat in Vermont, lured by their plausibly bizarre personalities and by the delightful suspense of the bass-fishing tournament. The structure of the novel is episodic as the women interact with each other (Iesbian drama!) and write their poignant essays. This book and Sandra Moran's "Nudge" are the best novels I've read this year because they are each so original and true. As one of Ann McMan's characters writes in her essay: "I worry that I won't have time to to accomplish the work I've set out to do. Work that happily, finally feels important. That feels meaningful." This book is important and meaningful, and I highly recommend it.
12 of 15 people found the following review helpful. This is a great book - wonderful characters, intriguing storytelling, elegantly and cohesively put together. By VelvetLounger It is so much harder to review a great book than it is to review a good book. With a good book you can slam dunk that it’s a good story with good characters, say you liked it and you are done. When you read remarkable books, you have to think about it so much more – how to express why a book it significant without sounding sycophantic or fantastic.So Ann McMan’s Backcast is a great book. It is not just an excellent read, but an important book in a line of notable publications we are seeing from our really good lesbian authors. Lesbian writers who are moving the lesfic genre on; who make us think, challenge us, entertain us. Authors who want to write – can write – amazing books, who happen to be lesbians and don’t sell out their personal story line to make their books mainstream – despite having the obvious ability to be lauded mainstream writers.Before people start shouting, I am not criticising everybody else, or downing other authors. I love all sorts of lesfic from romance and erotica to fantasy and crime, and we need it all. But I also want us to have literary lesfic, modern lesfic that will stand up with Woolf and May-Brown, Miller and Forrest. Lesfic that shows off our great writers, that promotes good writing, that showcases the breadth and depth of our genre which has moved way beyond the ‘penny dreadfuls’ of the early days.Backcast is one of those books. On the surface it is a fairly straightforward tale of 13 women who come together for two weeks at a writers workshop, from which the organising artist will create an exhibition. This simple plotline gives Ann McMan the platform to create 13 strong, individual, extremely powerful and eccentric characters. Out of such a seemingly modest beginning we have drama, romance, history – except it really is herstory this time – and a deeply personal glance into what makes these women who they are.As always, McMan’s books are elegantly and cohesively put together. Her words flow and the balance between the elements is so perfect you forget you are reading. Her characterisation and dialogue are immaculate presentations of real people, they must be real for her descriptions to be so tangible and the characters to be so authentic. And to add flavour we have 13 shorts in the voices of our 13 women, again realistic, authentic, the expressions of genuine women’s lives.It made me laugh, a lot – McMan’s books have a deep-seated humour running through their veins. It made me cry – I defy any of our friends and family of choice to read ‘Heal Thyself’ after recent events and not weep. But most of all it made me feel like I was there, sitting on the lawn chairs, drinking the cocktails, hating the aspic, enjoying these women.There is a flavour of the women’s scene from yesteryear for me personally. Maybe it has survived in the conferences and festivals in the US, but I haven’t been in that atmosphere of exciting, creative, challenging women since the 90’s. I think it no accident that most of these women are not spring chickens, and many have literally been around the block.You see it has me enthralled. I have to read it again. I don’t have a choice. One reading simply isn’t enough to garner even a part of the richness and depth of these women and their interactions – let alone know all I need to know about competitive bass fishing.I rarely give books 5 stars anymore because if I give out too many 5’s what’s left? Needless to say this is a 6. Read it.(publisher review copy received)
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Writers In Vermont By Lee Lynch Backcast is an ambitious and challenging novel. It encompasses an array of worlds: the arts, lesbians, writers, feminism, sport fishing, romance, magical realism, and humor, all intricately bound up with the depths of human experience. There is a universality to the story that will appeal to any reader.Most of those readers are almost guaranteed to fall in love with one of the fourteen diverse and diversely creative lesbians involved in a project for the National Endowment of the Arts and to find themselves in at least one of these characters.The rather exhilarating concept of literature growing out of sculpture and vice versa is cleverly reflected in the structure of the novel. The pitfalls and wonders of the sculptor’s Judy Chicago-like vision bring the characters together—and split them apart. McMan plunges deeply into the damaged parts of ourselves with a wise and compassionate lucidity. The stories she tells, presented as powerful first-person vignettes inserted in the midst of the action, reveal our own agonized journeys to and within ourselves. They also display the glory of lesbian and gender non-conforming accomplishments in the face of oppression, physical danger and rejectionAnd there is plenty of action. This is a tale of herding cats, or lesbians in this case. No one surpasses this author’s wit. From orgies of bickering writers to a catch and release fishing tournament, to sharing lodging facilities with a very gay-unfriendly church, McMan keeps us laughing. She takes the reader from sheer silliness to pools of absolute poetry.Ann McMan is a funny, funny writer and also a deeply serious writer. She tests her wings with every new book. Inventive and highly literate, she deserves accolades galore. Just as important, she is a delight to read.
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