Fiction of Gay Interest

The Naked Heart
John Lee Weldon
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Young
New York, NY, USA

Year


1953 1st edition       
Cover / size: Hardback / 13 cm *21 cm / 216 pp

Dustjacket?   yes

ISBN: n/a

Arbery Ref:   000016

Condition Good / Very Good

Jacket: scuffed and torn and small pieces missing; pencil mark through original price. Boards (dark purple with red spine and black lettering): slight marks, dents and fading; one corner slightly dented. Page edges dusty and slightly mottled. Endpapers mottled, erased pencil notes. Early pages have very slight mottling, but most are clean.

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Plot / Content:                              Rating: g

"In telling the story of Christy and the significant episodes of his development, John L Weldon has caught the heartbreak of a too-early love, the terror of a perverted affection, the disaster of events that too soon attack a defenseless heart. It is the story, too, of Christy's family, a poor white family in Alabama, desperately clinging to respectability and brutally punishing any deviation from it. Rich in local color, it is a disarmingly honest revelation of the troubled mind of a Southern boy."

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