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by: Charles Henri-Ford, Parker Tyler See Larger Image List Price: $11.95 Amazon.com's Price: $9.56 You Save: $2.39 (20%) Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9781596541351 ISBN: 1596541350 Label: Olympiapress.com Manufacturer: Olympiapress.com Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 140 Publication Date: January 31, 2005 Publisher: Olympiapress.com Sales Rank: 611388 Studio: Olympiapress.com Related Items: Water From A Bucket: A Diary 1948-1957 Art and Sex in Greenwich Village: A Memoir of Gay Literary Life After Stonewall Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 A Single Man On the Road: The Original Scroll (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) see more Editorial Review: Product Description: Praised unflinchingly by Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein, this stunning work, first published in 1933 by the Obelisk Press, Paris, is a non-judgemental depiction of gay life and men who earn their living there, told through characters like Julian (modeled on Ford) and Karel (based on Tyler). With the added interracial connotations (book was set in Harlem and Greenwich), is anyone surprised that this title didn't clear customs across the Channel or the Pond? For decades? Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Young, yes. Evil? Naaaah. By this time, there's a fairly sizeable American sub-genre of "Bohemian" novels that deal with young artists and their sex-drug-and-alcohol-crazed friends. This is the fourth of this sub-genre that I have read. The others are Kerouac's THE SUBTERRANEANS (1950s San Francisco), Viva's SUPERSTAR (the Warhol crowd in the late 60s) and of course, Henry Miller's Parisian classic TROPIC OF CANCER. Several years ago I was showing some visiting German friends around New York and they asked me, "When did ... Read More Rating: - The Banal and the Fascinating A dreadful novel, pretentious, arty and clearly indebted to Gertrude Stein in its alliterative passages of nonsensical phrases. The characters are cardboard, the plot non-existent and good chunks are completely unintelligible. Saying all that, I found the book fascinating as a historical document of gay life in New York of the early 30's. Village Bohemia, gay bars, the drag balls, cruising on Riverside Drive, gay bashing, rent parties are all here, and written by those who lived it. Those looking for ... Read More

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