Contract with the World

In Contract with the World, the setting is Vancouver, and the time is the mid-1970s. Told from six different characters’ points of view, the novel describes the intersection between artistic motivation, personal fulfillment, and sexual politics.
 
The Insomniac Library is proud to reissue Jane Rule’s fifth novel more than twenty years after its initial appearance in 1980.

Describes the intersection between artistic motivation, personal fullfillment, and sexual politics.

Jane Rule was born in Plainfield, New Jersey in 1931. She grew up in the Midwest and in California, where she graduated from Mills College. Rule moved to Vancouver in 1956, where she worked at the University of British Columbia, with her partner Helen Sonthoff. Rule's novels include Against the Season, and The Young in One Another's Arms.