# Desert of the Heart

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- Book: [Desert of the Heart](https://www.bookquiver.com/jane-rule/desert-of-the-heart) ([Desert of the Heart.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jane-rule/desert-of-the-heart.md))
- Authors: [Jane Rule](https://www.bookquiver.com/jane-rule)
- Publisher: virago
- ISBN: 978-18-4408-678-8
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2010-10-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Set in the late 1950s, this is the story of Evelyn Hall, an English Professor, who goes to Reno to obtain a divorce and put an end to her disastrous 16-year marriage. While staying at a boarding house to establish her six-week residency requirement she meets Ann Childs, a casino worker and fifteen years her junior. Physically, they are remarkably alike and eventually have an affair and begin the struggle to figure out just how a relationship between two women can last. Desert of the Heart examines the conflict between convention and freedom and the ways in which the characters try to resolve the conflict