Contract with the World : A Novel

Told as a series of interconnected stories, Jane Rule's fifth noveloffering six characters' shifting perspectivestakes us to a place where feminism, creativity, and sexual politics collideContract with the World follows a group of friends, artists, and lovers as they negotiate the shifting terrain of the 1970sa time when gay and lesbian politics were just emerging. Divided into six parts, the novel enters a world marked by desire, ambition, jealousy, and love. We follow these sexually adventurous thirty-something friends as they marry, divorce, take lovers, lose love, and never stop searching for personal and artistic fulfillment.Whether gay, straight, or bisexual, Rule's characters are as much a product of the era that defines them as of the wise and foolhardy choices they make in their own turbulent liveschoices that will have inevitable, sometimes tragic consequences.