Fiction of Gay Interest

Strange Brother
Blair Niles
Publisher: Liveright
New York, NY, USA

Year


 		1931 FIRST EDITION*       
Cover / size: hardback / h 19.6 cm * w 15.1 cm / 341 pp

Dustjacket?   yes*

ISBN: n/a

Arbery Ref:   000168

Condition Very Good

[* Book unmarked and appears to be first edition. However, jacket has reviews and states "seventh printing"] Jacket discoloured / stained and worn at edges, particulary bottom of spine; one 1cm tear at top of spine; spine particularly faded and worn. Boards (blue): worn and slightly curved at corners and top of spine; bottom of spine slightly crushed. Front endpapers discolouring slightly and rear endpaper has small pencil mark. Page edges dusty and leading page edges rough cut. Pages otherwise clean and binding tight.

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Plot / Content:                              Rating: G

"The story is about a platonic relationship between a heterosexual woman and a gay man and takes place in New York City in the late 20s and early 30s. Strange Brother is significant because it provides an early and objective documentation of homosexual issues during the Harlem Renaissance." (continued on Wikipedia)

Anthony Slide's Lost Gay Novels points out that Blair Niles (see below) was an anthropologist and some of her description comes from an anthropological perspective. One of the themes is the refrain from the central "masculine" homosexual character that he has nothing in common with effeminate men . . .


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Background / Biography:

"Blair Niles" (Mary Blair Rice, 1880 - 1959) was an American novelist and travel writer and a founding member of the Society of Woman Geographers. continued on Wikipedia





Reviews:

"A daring adventure into the very heart of that which until recently has been forbidden territory to even the most advanced of the sex novelists" Philadelphia Record
"A sympathetic statement of the genuine problems which confront a sensitive intermediate . . . a skillfully plotted, spiritedly written, thoroughly credible novel . . . Mrs Niles is to be warmly commended for the generosity and thoroughness of her accomplishment." Florence Haxton Britten, New York Herald-Tribune
"It is a delicate theme, handled with skill and perfect taste." San Francisco News
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