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Fiction of Gay Interest
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Plot / Content: Rating: G The life story of Kurt Gray, in one of the earliest US novels to treat homosexuality positively. A later reprint of the book suggests the novel was autobiographical and many or most of the characters portrayed real people. Background / Biography: Forman Brown (1901 - 1996) was a world leader in puppet theatry, whose Turnabout Theater in Los Angeles in the 1940s attracted celebrity attention and support from some of Hollywood's biggest names. Better Angel was his only gay book. More details on Wikipedia. Reviews: We have not been able to trace contemporary reviews of the book. A 2008 review by Fiona Glass on speakitsname.com describes the story as "intriguing" but the novel overall "dry and tedious". Arbery Books also sells secondhand and rare non-gay fiction and non-fiction. Click here for our full list. |
"Kurt Gray was thirteen years old,but as he sat in the broad chair pulled close to the square front window, he seemed still a little boy. Partly it was the light; partly it was the way in which one thin leg was tucked under him, and his chin dug into his fist. Folded together over his book he seemed smaller than he was. It was early March. Patches of graying snow thatched the earth outside; and a gray sky, tarnished with gold from a sun gone down behind the grove of oaks opposite, gave to the light a pale, cold, honey-colored translucence that was thin and clear and yet liquid and winey. The room was in deep shadow, and the the boy, his head bent almost to the pages of the book, strained his eyes over it with such a silent intentness that he seemed grown to the heavy chair and to the dim and aqueous atmosphere of the room. The faint sounds of rattling dishes and his mother's step in the kitchen could not break through into his consciousness. 'Now Herakles,' he read. 'though his warriors were ready and urging him to be off on the long-awaited quest for the fleece, refused to set sail until Hylas was found. For Hylas, famed among all the youths of the country for his beauty, was the hero's favorite. In spite of the impatient grumblings of the princes and of the warriors, Herakles sought his young friend. Through field and woodland he went, calling aloud "Hylas! Hylas!" but Hylas was nowhere to be found.'" opening paragraph Secondhand booksellers |
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