Description
FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. 160. Publisher’s brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, white dustjacket printed in black. Two short closed tears to dustjacket, spine ends a touch bumped.
Conundrum.
- London: Faber and Faber 1974
£75
Notes
Welsh writer Jan Morris's memoir on her transgender identity and transition. Focusing on being 'born into the wrong body', she names her surgery in Morocco a 'climax', saying ' it left her "astonishingly happy" —as, to judge from her prose, she remained. Jan and [and her wife] Elizabeth would stay together, one way and another, for seventy years' (Stephanie Burt, Paris Review blog, Jan. 2021). Though slightly dated by imperialistic references and dismissal of diverse transgender and intersex experiences, Conundrum 'remains a sympathetic guide, not so much to present-day transgender struggles as to trans joy.'
