Paxton Court

by Diane Salvatore

A close circle of friends, gay and lesbian couples, move to Paxton Court to build their dream homes together only to discover very mixed attitudes amonst their neighbours. In the midst of this, they must deal with aging, changing relationships and death of love ones. Insightful, erotic, and evilly funny, this portrays the foibles and fears of both gays and straight.

Genres: Fiction, LGBT, Lesbian Fiction, Lesbian

238 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1995

About the author

Diane Salvatore is the author of four novels, Benediction, which was a Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award; Love, Zena Beth; Paxton Court; One of Our Own; and a story collection, Not Telling Mother. During her nearly 30 years as a senior-level editor and editor in chief at several of America's national women's magazines, she served on the board of the American Society of Magazine Editors and appeared frequently on the Today Show and Good Morning America. Today she is publisher of Broadway Books. Diane and her partner live in New Jersey.

Reviews

[Heidi · Rating 3 out of 5]

I expected a campy story about fitting in to a new community. Wasn’t that! Characters I liked but then would do things that just didn’t fit my idea of who they were. Several editing errors words blended as on wanted more out of the story. Just ends, I wanted more.

[J.R. Tomlin · Rating 3 out of 5]

WHY are good lesbian novels so hard (if not impossible) to find? This could have been a pretty good novel if she had written it with any depth. The characterization is so shallow as to be paper thin.

There are some great "gay" novels out there -- using gay to mean male. What IS it that there are no equivalents to Giovanni's Room, The Charioteer or Front Runner about Lesbians?

This is a decent read but could have been so much more.