{"product_id":"the-lydia-steptoe-stories-faber-stories","title":"The Lydia Steptoe Stories: Faber Stories","description":"'I have quite changed my mind. I am going to run away and become a boy.'\n\nIn these three stories, written by Djuna Barnes under the pseudonym Lydia Steptoe, three characters find themselves on the brink of a sexual awakening - accompanied by guns, whips, and worldly innuendo.\n\nA fourteen-year-old girl plans to become 'a virago', until her mother intercepts her first tryst by dressing up as her male lover. A boy of the same age is lured into the forest by his father's mistress. A woman of forty falls in love and longs to kill herself, so unbearable is the return of the youth she thought she wanted. 'Alice', she tells herself, 'be a man.'\n\nBarnes makes gender and desire seem slippery and joyful - and makes the fictional Lydia Steptoe seem like a writer for our time.","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39667913588821,"sku":"9780571352470N","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/8abfe33b-c8bd-440e-9399-3dd46a1aa7d1.jpg?v=1644283244","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/the-lydia-steptoe-stories-faber-stories","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}