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Plot / Content: Rating: G "'I can't live with guilt, and I have felt guilty enough to die . . .' "From a love affair wrecked by a puritan conscience, a woman emerges to a compromise with misery - a last-resort marriage to a homosexual. In this disturbing novel Pamela Hansford Johnson investigates regions of love and conscience that most of us prefer to hid from themselves." (from the cover) Background / Biography: Pamela Hansford Johnson, Baroness Snow (29 May 1912 – 18 June 1981) was an English novelist, playwright, poet, literary and social critic. She was married to writer C P Snow. continued on Wikipedia Reviews: Arbery Books also sells secondhand and rare non-gay fiction and non-fiction. Click here for our full list. |
"After dinner it rained so heavily that nobody went out. The public rooms at the Moray were crowded: fires had been lit. It was abnormally cold for June. I had nothing left to read and all the magazines had been taken by other people. I thought I would try to 'think', which was something Gerard could do in vacuo, sitting motionless for an hour at a time absorbed in the cinematic projections from his own head, but which I always found it hard to do for more than five minutes unless I were doing something else as well. Although I was then in my late thirties, I was well below the average age of the other visitors. I felt oppressed by elderliness and by the rain, resentful as a young girl who feels her life racing by when there are no entertainments and she has to sit still. I began listening to conversations; which was not easy, for voices at the Moray had the comfortable wash and muffle of the sea and were very seldom raised. But it is possible to throw the hearing as a ventriloquist throws the voice, and I was able to adjust my ear to a couple, a stark-looking old man and his small plump wife, a good deal younger, who were sitting on a sofa a few yards away from me, with a space between them. They might have quarrelled, or have been been expecting a third party." opening paragraphs Secondhand booksellers |
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