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1972 · rif. 19427 — 1972. LGBTQ Miller Isabel pseudonym of Alma Routsong. Patience and Sarah. New York: McGraw-Hill Book and Company 1972. First edition. Red hardcovers with blue lettering. Illustrated dust jacket by Stephanie Tevonian of a Lesbian couple in a pastoral setting. Set in the nineteenth century Isabel Miller's classic lesbian novel traces the relationship and "Boston marriage" between Patience White a painter and Sarah Dowling a farmer whose romantic bond is tested by their puritanical New England town. First self-published in 1969 titled A Place for Us in an edition of 1000 copies the author hand-sold the book on New York street corners; it garnered increasing attention to the point of receiving the American Library Association's first Gay Book Award in 1971. McGraw-Hill's version of the book a year later brought it to mainstream bookstores across the country. Patience & Sarah is a historical romance whose drama was a touchstone for the burgeoning gay and women's activism of the 1960s and early 1970s. It celebrates the joys of an uninhibited love between two strong women with a confident defiance that remains relevant today. The pages are clean and crisp; this book is in very good condition. unknown