Its a story about teenage love, and theres some truth for everyone.

I immensely enjoyed the authors descriptive style. “A good ear for dialogue and a good eye for a scene and a good memory for the sickening incomprehensions of adolescence. Books by Jane Futcher Marin, the Place, the People: Profile of a California County Starting at 2.13 Dream Lover Starting at 2.00 Ronalee I could not put it down. Lexie is a superb portrait of a fascinating but unreliable and dangerous personality.” - The Horn Book magazine “The characterization is outstanding the hurt, bewildered Jinx her loyal roommate and the smooth, calculating headmaster. Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina, in New York Native Full Book Name: Crush Author Name: Jane Futcher Book Genre: Boarding School, Fiction, Lesbian, Lesbian Fiction, LGBT, Queer, Romance, School Stories, Young Adult ISBN 9781555836023 Edition Language: English Date of Publication: January 1st 1994 PDF / EPUB File Name: Crush-JaneFutcher.pdf, Crush-JaneFutcher.epub PDF File Size: 764. Jane Futcher has tried to present the confusing, terrifying dilemmas that accompany any step out of the narrow band of acceptable behavior that society tolerates.” “The emotional facts of this novel ring true. Marny Hall, clinical psychologist and author of The Lavender Couch and The Lesbian Love Companion Caught in the thrall of attraction to the beautiful and bad Lexie Yves, Jinx Tuckwell hovers on the edge of ecstasy, teetering dangerously close to what she calls ‘the deep end.’”ĭr. Instead, novels such as Isabelle Hollands The Man Without a Face (1979) and Jane Futchers Crush (1982) narrate the ways in which same-sex sexuality has. The book was among the first novels written in the voice of a teenaged girl upended by the exhilaration of new love for someone of her own sex. Crush by Jane Futcher, January 1994, Tandem Library edition, School & Library Binding in English.

“Originally published in 1981, Crush became an instant bestseller in the lesbian community, where reviewers and booksellers praised the novel for its engaging characters, dry wit, page-turning plot and moral sting.