Kay Boyle was an active participant in the «Lost Generation» and experimental modernism. Yet her texts force readers to consider the underlying connections between their private lives and political events. Drawing upon current literary theory, this study analyzes Boyle's innovative narrative strategies. Professor Elkins considers the relationship between Boyle's feminist ideology and her critical reception and illuminates those points where aesthetic values and gender politics intersect. The Author: Marilyn Elkins is an assistant professor of English at California State University, Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A frequent contributor to professional journals, she is the editor of The Heart of a Man and the forthcoming August Wilson: A Casebook .