Jennifer Finney Boylan (originally James Finney Boylan)
	The Planets

First published by Poseidon Press in the USA 1991 April 1. US paperback published 1992 by Vintage Contemporaries. First published in the UK 1991. First published as a UK paperback by Bloomsbury Publishing 1995 July 7, ISBN 0-747-52118-2.

Born "transgendered", Jennifer Finney Boylan published The Planets under her previous name of James Finney Boylan. Explicitly linked to Holst's orchestral suite, the novel places fictional characters in the real (but bizarre) Pennsylvania town of Centralia.

The characters are often at least as out of the ordinary as their surroundings. One, Judith Lenahan, is a "nudist", but her nudism, while practised for as long as possible every day, is confined to the interior of her apartment. That would be that, if Boylan hadn't included some strongly-argued justification for Judith's abhorence of clothes. Included in the extracts, these seem to be more than the simple rehash of naturist publicity found in some other books detailed on Yarns Without Threads.

Ratings:

Nudity	Naturist nudity	A good read?

Last updated 2005 July 3.
 
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