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Fiction of Gay Interest
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Plot / Content: Rating: g Comedy of manners set among British and American expatriates living on the Italian isle of Sirene (Capri) in the early twentieth-century. Events focus on the arrival on the island of Count Marsac and his handsome young secretary. Several of the characters were inspired by real people; Marsac was based on the notorious French poet, Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen. Other novels inspired by the people and island of Capri include Norman Douglas' South Wind and Roger Peyrefitte's The Exile of Capri. Background / Biography: The Wikipedia entry on Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie (17 January 1883, West Hartlepool, England – 30 November 1972, Edinburgh, Scotland) credits him as a prolific English-born Scottish novelist and nationalist, yet ignores the fact he was also briefly a soldier and spy in the First World War. Another edition of this book is available here. Use the Search Box in the left column to find other titles by this author from Arbery Books. Reviews: Arbery Books also sells secondhand and rare non-gay fiction and non-fiction. Click here for our full list. |
"Nigel Dawson was a tall, slim, good-looking young man of about twenty-five, whose chief of many vanities was a desire to be taken for eighteen, in which he often succeeded. His mother, left a rich widow in Indianapolis, had brought him to Europe when he was twelve, and he had thrived on the cosmopolitan culture with which she had provided him at the hands of various tutors. His education had been disjointed, because Mrs Dawson, who was gathering her rosebuds while she might, was capricious and apt to get rid of any tutor as soon as she noticed another she liked better. Only one of them indeed had lasted more than six months, and that was a half-caste Hawaian whom she engaged in Honolulu on her way round the world and left there on the way back. It was from him that Nigel had learnt to dance the hula-hula which was such a feature of parties on Sirene. Mrs Dawson and her son had settled in the island when Nigel really was eighteen, and since then, although nobody had breathed a word against Mrs Dawson, several people had hinted at the most extraordinary things about Nigel." pp16 - 17 |
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