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Fiction of Gay Interest
Plot / Content: Rating: G see below Background / Biography: Nathan Aldyne was (is?) the pseudonym of two writers - Michael McDowell and Dennis Schuetz - who wrote at least two other crime novels featuring Valentine and Lovelace. Reviews: "There are some rather entrancing types in Slate by Nathan Aldyne. Take Susie. She is recording secretary of PUMA - the Prostitutes Union of Massachusetts. She takes her calling and her secretarial responsibilities seriously. She resents being called a hooker and insists on being called a prostitute. As an officeer of PUMA, she explains, 'I wouldn't be doing my sworn duty if I didn't stand up for the semantics clause in our constitution.' "Or take Miss America, a vague woman who has nothing to do with beauty contests. She is called Miss America because she knows everything about the 50 states. She is asked if she had a nice Christmas. Oh, yes, she says. 'Fred gave me a doorstep made out of petrified wood. It is exactly what I wanted. Somebody must have told him.' "There is the acidulous gossip columnist of a New York weekly magazine, a homosexual who combines the manners of an alley rat with the epigrammatic style of a minor-league Oscar Wilde. he is the one who is knocked off. He is not the only homosexual in this book. Slate is the story of a homosexual and his straight girlfriend who are trying to open a homosexual bar in Boston. As such, it subjects the homosexual world of the city to a close examination. "Some sexual activities are described but the book is not prurient. In its outwardly rattlebrained yet sharply sophisticated manner, Slate is altogether objective. Here are these people, and this is the way they act and talk. It is a well-planned murder mystery too, though there is one weakness. It never is really made clear why the killer is stalking the heroine. The other elements of the plot hang together logically. Slate is an entertaining, well-written book, as breezy as anything you are going to encounter." Newgate Callendar, The New York Times (from the jacket) Arbery Books also sells secondhand and rare non-gay fiction and non-fiction. Click here for our full list. |
"Clarisse Lovelace stumbled into the main lobby of Beth Israel hospital. Struggling to balance three bunches of flowers, a two-pound Whitman's Sampler, four paperback books and a briefcase, she tripped over the threshold and slipped a contact lens. She staggered over to the information desk, squinted at the clock above the bank of cathode-ray tubes bristling with hospital information, and was relieved to find that half an hour of morning visiting hours remained." Secondhand booksellers |
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