Fiction of Gay Interest

Stud
Phil Andros (Samuel Steward)
Publisher: Guild Press, Washington DC


Year


1966 (FIRST EDITION)       
Cover / size: Hardback, octavo

Dustjacket?   yes

ISBN: n/a

Arbery Ref:   000031

Condition Very Good

Jacket has slight rubbing and minimal tears, but v good. Book has slightly stained edges but pages clean and binding tight. Excellent addition to a collector's library.

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Plot / Content:                              Rating: G

"Phil Andros is a hustler. The word has developed many meanings, but in his case it means that he lives by renting his body to all male comers. In a savage moment of self-accusation he once explains the term to a country boy he has picked up: 'I'm a male whore, a guy who sells his body to queers for money.'

"Stud is a novel in the picaresque tradition, with the 'hero' an adventuring, lusting rogue, partly uncertain whether he belongs to the homosexul world or not, but finding his own channel as the book moves on - meeting bank presidents and young gangsters, Negroes and Black Muslims, college boys and professors, weight-lifters and policemen, fetishists and motorcyclists, millionaires and narcissists, musicians and photographers, factory workers and interior designers - all of whom he beds, some free but most of them for money."

(from the jacket)



Background / Biography:

Samuel Morris Steward (23 July 1909 - 31 December 1993), also known by the pen name Phil Andros, was a novelist and tattoo artist. continued on Wikipedia



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