Contract with the World: A Novel

Told as a series of interconnected stories, Jane Rule's fifth novel—offering six characters' shifting perspectives—takes us to a place where feminism, creativity, and sexual politics collide

Contract with the World follows a group of friends, artists, and lovers as they negotiate the shifting terrain of the 1970s—a time when gay and lesbian politics were just emerging.

Divided into six parts, the novel enters a world marked by desire, ambition, jealousy, and love. We follow these sexua...