In Her Day
For years a "lost" collector's item,  here is the second novel  from a brilliant young  author testing her literary muscle, and it's  bursting  at the seams with Rita Mae Brown's trademark cast  of  characters and crackling quips. Written  immediately after her classicRubyfruit  Jungle,In Her Daytakes a  loving swipe at  the charged political atmosphere of  Greenwich Village in the early  seventies. Elegant  art history professor Carole Hanratty insists   brains transcend lust--until she crashes into Ilse, a  revolutionary  feminist flush with the arrogance of  youth. Blazing with rhetoric,  their romance is a  sexual and ideological inferno. Ilse campaigns to   get Carole to join The Movement, but  forty-four-year-old Carole and  her zany peers have twenty years  of fight behind them and are wary of  causes bogged  down in talk. After all, says Carole's best  friend, the  real reason for a revolution is so the good  things in life circulate.  Her idea of subversion  is hiring a Rolls-Royce to go to  McDonald's.In Her Day, with its infectious  merriment and serious  underpinnings, proves that if  politics is the great divider, humor is  the ultimate  restorative.