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Fiction of Gay Interest
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Plot / Content: Rating: G "The year is 1927, and up in Harlem the joints are jumpin' with the sounds of the Jazz Age." blurb continued here For more details of the plot and the reaction to its publication, see this Wikipedia article) Anthony Slide's Lost Gay Novels points out that Blair Niles (see below) was an anthropologist and some of her description comes from an anthropological perspective. One of the themes is the refrain from the central "masculine" homosexual character that he has nothing in common with effeminate men . . . Hardback edition of this book available here Background / Biography:
Reviews: "A daring adventure into the very heart of that which until recently has been forbidden territory to even the most advanced of the sex novelists" Philadelphia Record "A sympathetic statement of the genuine problems which confront a sensitive intermediate . . . a skillfully plotted, spiritedly written, thoroughly credible novel . . . Mrs Niles is to be warmly commended for the generosity and thoroughness of her accomplishment." Florence Haxton Britten, New York Herald-Tribune "It is a delicate theme, handled with skill and perfect taste." San Francisco News (from the jacket of an early hardback edition) Arbery Books also sells secondhand and rare non-gay fiction and non-fiction. Click here for our full list. |
"Colored lights hung under the low ceiling - red, blue and yellow lights. There was a dance floor in the center of the room, with tables surrounding it on three sides, and on the fourth side an orchestra. There were saxophones, trombones, trumpets and fiddles, banjos and flutes and drums - a great jazz orchestra. At the tables there were white men and women; and alone on the dance floor there was Glory, standing, straight and slender, with the spotlight full upon her, Glory singing the Creole Love Call." opening paragraph Secondhand booksellers |
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