Fiction of Gay Interest

Totempole
Sanford Friedman
Publisher: New American Library
New York, NY, USA

Year


 		1966       first publ 1966
Cover / size: paperback / h 17.7 cm * w 10.6 cm / 380 pp

Dustjacket?   none

ISBN: n/a

Arbery Ref:   001093

Condition Fair

Cover severely creased, some soiling, wear at edges, particularly along spine. Book leans forward. Page edges mottled. Short ink notes on page near end. Pages browning but otherwise clean.

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Plot / Content:                              Rating: G

"This critically acclaimed underground novel is unique - it presents a man's life solely in the form of sexual experience. Written with staggering honest and compelling skill, Totempole traces the erotic development of a homosexual from infancy to adolescence to manhood - and finally to his emancipating love affair in a Korean prison camp. "

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Reviews:

"I do not know of any piece of fiction that deals more perceptively with pre-adolescence sex - wholly honest . . . Friedman treats the homosexual theme, as he does the theme of infant sexuality, with great candor . . . there are episodes that are developed with unusual imaginative power." Granville Hicks, Saturday Review

"Vibrates with the mysteries of personality . . . rich in comic incident, psychologically convincing." New York Times Book Review

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