Jane Ransom's Bye-Bye is a darkly comic first novel, both sexy and profoundly philosophical. The protagonist/narrator is a bisexual divorcee in Manhattan who assumes a false identity in an effort to escape the past and to spy on her own life. While exploring issues of gender and self, Bye-Bye deals provocatively with performance art, S&M, personal ads and art in the 90s.
Jane Ransom is the author of Without Asking, which won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize and was lauded by, among others, The Village Voice and The Los Angeles Times. Ransom has lived in Madrid, Paris, and Puerto Rico, and now resides in New York.
"Bye-Bye is the most exciting book of its kind to come along in years. And just what is its kind? That of the quest for truth—truth as immediate reality, rather than as a relic to be stashed in a savings account. The quest is pursued through the intertwining tangles of love, bisexual eroticism, and perhaps friendship; its telling provides the freshest writing about sex since Henry Miller."
~Harry Matthews,author of The Journalist and Singular Pleasure
"Jane Reavill Ransom is gifted with a sharp eye for telling detail, a keen ear for the twists and turns of colloquial speech, and a wicked wit. Bye-Bye is a fiendishly funny and sinister shocker."
~Frederick Morgan,editor of The Hudson Review
"Reading Bye-Bye I felt driven by desire to see what would happen next. The protagonist explores some mighty perturbing situations but ultimately, this is a book about 'self' and also, more subtly, about bravery, for to view oneself as honestly as this character does requires nothing short of courage. I enjoyed this tightly narrated book immensely—and also learned about a part of me I am not always ready to admit exists."
~Lucy Greatly,author of Autobiography of a Face
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