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Plot / Content: Rating: G "John Lehmann's first novel for many years tells the story of a young and happy homosexual emerging in the 1920s to enjoy, in the purely pagan sense, all the sensual world has to offer. In these confessions, Jack Marlowe starts off as a golden youth with golden connections. His progress from private to public school and university leads him gracefully into the arms of the Bloomsbury Group. Soon, his pursuit off sexuality lures him to Europe, to the Berlin of Mr Norris, the Vienna of lederhosen, and then back to London's blitz where anything goes in the black-out and under the bombers. "Behind the sensual narrative there is also an accurate picture of between-war Europe. The mndarins of London's intelligentsia are not all they seem to be; under the frenzied travesties of Berlin lies the terror Nazism; and, after the Anschluss. gaiety dies in Vienna. But Jack Marlowe never abandons his hope of a deeper relationship than the frank pursuit of sexual pleasure implies, and some of the most moving pages of the book describe the relationships he entered into after the war, to which this always reviving hope led him on more than one fortunate-unfortunate occasion. At the same time the problems of an [sic] homosexual are seriously and wittily considered, not least when he finds himself the not entirely unconsenting object of desire by the opposite sex." (from the jacket) Background / Biography: John Frederick Lehmann (born Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, 2 June 1907; died London, 7 April 1987) was an English poet and man of letters, and one of the foremost literary editors of the twentieth century, founding the periodicals New Writing and The London Magazine. continued on Wikipedia Reviews: Arbery Books also sells secondhand and rare non-gay fiction and non-fiction. Click here for our full list. |
"The experts, I am told, claim that one's sexual make-up is decided before one has reached the age of five. That may be so, but I find an almost insuperable difficulty in penetrating the mists that have closed over everything that happened in my life before that age, except for a few random and disconnected pictures - an afternoon sitting by the river and watching a regatta with a favourite aunt, a walk over the downs with my father on a summer holiday, my nurse calling and calling for me in the great garden where I had hidden myself, and so on. By the age of fourteen, however, when I went to my public school, I am now certain that my basic homosexuality had declared itself, even though I may not have admitted it to myself. If circumstances had been different I might have been more pronouncedly bisexual; but that the homosexual tendency had revealed itself by that age is perfectly clear. I intend that these confessions should be predominantly concerned with my sexual self, and what the sequence and variety of my sexual expereinces taught me over the years. I search, therefore, for incidents and emotions in those nine years between the ages of five and fourteen that may help to explain myself to myself from this point of view." opening paragraph Secondhand booksellers |
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