Fiction of Gay Interest

Strange Marriage
James Colton (Joseph Hansen)
Publisher: Argyle Books
Washington DC, USA

Year


 		1965 (FIRST EDITION)       
Cover / size: Hardback / 14.5 cm *21.5 cm / 176 pp

Dustjacket?   yes

ISBN: n/a

Arbery Ref:   000007

Condition Very Good

Jacket: worn at edges and corners (particularly rear of spine) Boards (black spine and part covers: rest of covers camouflage green): worn and curling at top and bottom of spine; three corners slightly crushed. Page edges: dusty, slight yellowing, small stain on leading edge. Small pencil inscription on rear endpaper. Pages otherwise clean and binding tight.

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Colton: Strange Marriage


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Plot / Content:                              Rating: G

"Randy Hale [is], outwardly the popular, young owner of Hale's Cafe in the village of Pepper Tree. But at twenty-four, Randy is already a long-time member of the homosexual world. This taut, frankly sensual novel begins with Randy's frantic search for a male lover to replace his beloved Corky who has left Randy for the more exciting 'gay' life of a large city. Randy's search for appeasement takes him down strange and dangerous pathways"

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Background / Biography:

James Colton was a pseudonym for pulp gay fiction adopted by Joseph Hansen (19 July 1923 - 24 November 2004) before he became famous for his more serious work, including a series of crime novels starring gay insurance investigator Dave Brandstetter.

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"The alarm clock woke him in darkness. Randy rolled over in the wide bed and his hand silenced the jangle. Turning back, he reached for the accustomed warmth of all his mornings, the accustomed love. And he met emptiness. His hand touched only a bare stretch of cold sheeting. He let the hand lie while memory painfully reassembled the situation in his mind. Then he drew the hand back, back to the warmth of his own nakedness.

He lay dully and listened to the rain weep outside. An ache was in his chest. He was bewildered. For the first time in his 24 years he was alone. Till now, love had always been there when he'd needed it. His Dad, kite-maker, amateur cartoonist, lover of circuses, had been all any father ought to be - till death had snatched him when the boy was twelve. His mother had survived the highway crash to live another nine years in a wheelchair. Fat and jolly and energetic to the last, her love had never failed him. And when she'd died, then Corky had been there for him to reach out to - Corky of the quick eyes and hands, eager for affection as a hungry kid for food. But now Corky was gone."

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