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By Drewey Wayne Gunn

reading the advance of homosexual American fiction and offering an important studying record, this literary survey covers 257 works—novels, novellas, a photo tale cycle and a story poem—in which homosexual and bisexual male characters play a big function. Iconic works, corresponding to James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room and Christopher Isherwood’s A unmarried Man, are integrated, besides titles now not given awareness through previous surveys, akin to Wallace Thurman’s Infants of the Spring, Dashiel Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon, Julian Green’s Each in His Darkness, Ursula Zilinsky’s Middle Ground and David Plante’s The Ghost of Henry James. Chronological entries talk about every one work’s plot, importance for homosexual identification, and ebook heritage, in addition to a quick biography of the author.

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