The Golden Age of Gay Fiction by Drewey Wayne Gunn
By Drewey Wayne Gunn
Their characters have been generally out or suffering to get out. The books have been certainly out -- out at the revolving paperback bookracks in grocery shops, dime shops, drugstores, journal firms, and transportation terminals around the country for teens and senior electorate, within the towns and the agricultural parts alike, to discover and to devour.
Here 19 writers take you on a journey of this Golden Age of homosexual Fiction -- approximately the interval among the 1st Kinsey document and the 1st number of stories of town -- taking note of touchstone novels from the interval yet, much more, highlighting works of fiction which were left unjustly to assemble airborne dirt and dust on literary shelves.
Written through authors, students, creditors, and one of many publishers, their essays will let you know. they are going to occasionally amuse you. they're going to take you into literary corridors you simply suspected have been there. And the a few two hundred illustrations, selected for his or her old in addition to their inventive curiosity, offer a visible list of why this used to be the golden age.
It is assured that you'll emerge from studying this publication with an extended record of excellent reads to request out of your favourite booksellers!
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