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Fiction of Gay Interest
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Plot / Content: Rating: g "Kenneth Martin follows up the success of his first novel, Aubade, with this story of young people in London, moving aimlessly, comically and despairingly through the clubs of Chelsea and the streets of Kensington. Their older friends watch the bright, shifting pattern of their lives, unable to help them, half-loving, half-despising them. "Perkin Young is in love with Meg, an American girl styding music and hopelessly trying to forget the death of her young husband in a car crash. [TEXT BLOCKED OUT BY PUBLISHER] Simon Young, the older brother, tries to destroy his love for Anne, the unsophisticated girl lost among the affectations and weariness of her lover's friends. She is contrasted with Angel, the model, whose only reason for living is the search for love wherever she can find it. Jonathan, Perkin's basement-club owner who is unaware of his own corruptness, and wishes to be left alone, without suffering the consequences of his sometimes terrible actions." (from the jacket - as hinted above, there is a gay element to the story) Background / Biography: Arbery Books has not been able to find biographical information about Martin online. The author achieved brief fame in 1957 with his first novel, Aubade, about a gay teenage love affair that he wrote when he was sixteen. Reviews: Arbery Books also sells secondhand and rare non-gay fiction and non-fiction. Click here for our full list. |
"'Perkin worked in a bookshop in the Charing Cross Road; it was small, quiet and of necessity dark. He typed invoices, statements, and took charge of a small, easily-run sideline: the shop sold 'art photographs' of naked men and women. Perkin was deliciously shocked when the proprietor, a cheerful little German-Jew, first told him about this aspect of the business. 'I would not do this, you understand, if it were not absolutely necessary to pay for the overheads on the rest of my business.' He would have preferred to sell the works of Gautier and Baudelaire, but alas! the market was small, although he must admit - grinning from ear to ear - that a translation of Mademoiselle de Maupin could do very nicely, thank you, with the right sort of jacket." opening paragraph Secondhand booksellers |
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