Rubyfruit Jungle
A Novel
“The rare work of fiction that has changed real life . . . If you don’t yet know Molly Bolt—or Rita Mae Brown, who created her—I urge you to read and thank them both.”—Gloria Steinem
Winner of the Lambda Literary Pioneer Award | Winner of the Lee Lynch Classic Book Award
A landmark coming-of-age novel that launched the career of one of this country’s most distinctive voices, Rubyfruit Jungle remains a transformative work more than forty years after its original publication. In bawdy, moving prose, Rita Mae Brown tells the story of Molly Bolt, the adoptive daughter of a dirt-poor Southern couple who boldly forges her own path in America. With her startling beauty and crackling wit, Molly…
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June 23, 2015
Rita Mae Brown is the bestselling author of the Sneaky Pie Brown series; the Sister Jane series; the Runnymede novels, including Six of One and Cakewalk; A Nose for Justice and Murder Unleashed; Rubyfruit Jungle; In Her Day; and many other books. An Emmy-nominated screenwriter and a poet, Brown lives in Afton, Virginia, and is a Master of Foxhounds and the huntsman.
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Fox and Furious
Rita Mae Brown
Sealed with a Hiss
Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown
Feline Fatale
Rita Mae Brown
Time Will Tell
Rita Mae Brown
Lost & Hound
Rita Mae Brown
Hiss & Tell
Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown
Thrill of the Hunt
Rita Mae Brown
Claws for Alarm
Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown
Out of Hounds
Rita Mae Brown
Furmidable Foes
Rita Mae Brown
Scarlet Fever
Rita Mae Brown
Whiskers in the Dark
Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown
Homeward Hound
Rita Mae Brown