Fiction of Gay Interest

Sam
Lonnie Coleman
Publisher: Mayflower Books
London, UK

Year


 		1969       first published US 1959
Cover / size: Paperback / h 17.8 cm * w 11 cm / 191 pp

Dustjacket?   no

ISBN: n/a

Arbery Ref:   000171

Condition Poor

Widespread damage to cover; pre-title has short ink inscriptions, pages foxed and stained in some places, but spine unbroken binding tight.

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Plot / Content:                              Rating: G

from the cover:

THE HIGH LOW SET
High ideals - low morals: they were an ultra-sophisticated community with neuroses and morality to match. There was SAM: he had a deep emotional involvement with two people, an unhappily married woman - and the mediocre actor with whom he lived:
ADDIE: married to a sexually-aggressive husband, she craved Sam's gentle understanding:
WALTER: he loved Sam, but one woman wanted him enough to say - no bed, no career:
TOBY: he made love indiscriminately, using Sam as his excuse:
DAN: he was one woman's hope for the future:
RICHARD: he was one man's . . .
But in the High Low set it was as important to make hate as to make love . . .

Martin Foreman adds:

This is not high literature; the characterisation is formulaic, the plot is basic and predictable and there is little tension. Its primary interest is that despite the period when it was written, it includes both stereotyped bitchy gay men and gay men who are straightforward and honest and for whom there is a happy ending.



Background / Biography:

Lonnie Coleman (1920-1982) was an American novelist and playwright best known for writing the Beulah Land trilogy. Continue on Wikipedia




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"Walter said, 'We really ought to be going, Sam.'
The pregnant Adeline said, 'You don't have to go yet, please? It's Friday night.' Sam smiled at her.
Walter said, 'Everybody's tired.'
Adeline said, 'I'm not tired, even thought I've been carrying this child around all day. All day---' She laughed. 'All year. Toby's not tired, are you, Toby?'
Toby said, 'Ad men are never tired,' and smiled at them like an advertising man, to prove it. 'Who'd like another drink?'
Sam looked at Walter. 'One more.' "

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