She is also an Emmy-nominated screenwriter.īrown was born illegitimate in Hanover, Pennsylvania. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.Rita Mae Brown is a prolific American writer, most known for her mysteries and other novels ( Rubyfruit Jungle). I'm a writer and I'm a woman and I'm from the South and I'm alive, and that is that.' Frazier Armstrong couldn't have put it better. Rita Mae Brown once told an interviewer 'Next time anyone calls me a lesbian writer I'm going to knock their teeth in. After three decades of having 'a near-life experience,' she is determined to make a new beginning - as a brash, brazen, and totally irresistible woman who will raise the act of coming out of the closet into an art form. Yet Frazier soon realizes she's spent her whole life steeling herself against people, and hiding - and not just because she is gay. But if this formerly dutiful daughter isn't dying, she certainly seems to be facing a descent into hell: Her mother, Libby, committee woman extraordinaire,is throwing a hissy fit her best friend, the gay hunk Billy Cicero, is cutting her dead her former lover, Ann, is having hysterics now that 'everyone is going to know' and her gorgeous, charming brother Carter whose two favorite activities are getting drunk and getting laid, is gleefully spreading the word that his can-do-no-wrong sister is a dyke. Frazier can look forward to a long, happy life. because Frazier Armstrong wakes up the next morning to hear her doctor explaining that it's all been a mistake. Then the manure hits the fan in Charlottesville, Virginia. 'Tell the people you love who you are, or write them.' And so, as her last act here on earth, Frazier writes letters to her closest family and friends, telling them exactly what she thinks of them and, since she will be dead by the time they receive the letters, the truth about herself: She's gay. 'Don't die a stranger' Mandy Eisenhart, her assistant at the gallery, says on her last hospital visit. In fact, she has everything to live for, but she's lying in a hospital bed with a morphine drip in her arm and a life expectancy measured in hours.

What happens when a wildly successful Southern belle inadvertently tells the truth about her life to her family, her friends, her lover, and herself?Īt thirty-five, Mary Frazier Armstrong, called 'Frazier' by friends and enemies alike, is a sophisticated green-eyed blonde with a thriving art gallery, a healthy bank balance, and an enviable social position. Now Rita Mae Brown, author of the bestselling classic Rubyfruit Jungle, returns with her most wonderfully irreverent and thoroughly entertaining novel yet.

Venus Envy by Rita Mae Brown