I got this book free at work and knew it was to be my next subway read. It's original publication date was 1950 and is credited to be the first pulp to address a lesbian relationship. It's author, Tereska Torres, fictionalized her experiences in the French women's barracks during WWII. It sold 4 million copies when it was published and it was denounced as "obscene" by the House Senate Committee on Current Pornographic Materials in 1952, but never actually banned.
There is a very intersting interview with the author at the end which took place in 2004. The first sentence of the novel reads: "When the war began, I was in my last year of school at the convent of St. Celestine." Good times...
Here are some links if you care to learn more:
http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=155861494X
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1888785
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