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In the Purely Pagan Sense (Gay Modern Classics)

John Lehmann

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Description:Jack Marlowe, based on the author, roams from the Bloomsbury of London to circles in Paris and Berlin, 1920s through the Blitz, exploring his sexuality. He decides that his "education" in gay life was "extremely important." Author John Lehmann (1907-1987) was a poet, journalist, publisher and influential editor. This fictionalized memoir was first published in 1976. "Reads almost like a documentary...with insight and exactness," wrote the Financial Times.------------Below copy is from the first-edition dust jacket (1976)John Lehmann's first novel for many years tells the story of a young and happy homosexual emerging in the 1920s to enjoy, in the purely pagan sense, all that the sensual world has to offer. In these confessions, Jack Marlowe starts off as a golden youth with golden connections. His progress from private to public school and university, leads him gracefully into the arms of the Bloomsbury Group. Soon, his pursuit of sexuality lures him to Europe, to the Berlin of Mr. Norris, the Vienna of lederhosen, and then back to London's blitz where anything goes in the black-out and under the bombers. Behind the sensual narrative there is also an accurate picture of between-war Europe. The mandarins of London's intelligentsia are not all they seem to be; under the frenzied travesties of Berlin lies the terror of Nazism; and, after the Anschluss, gaiety dies in Vienna. But Jack Marlowe never abandons his hope of a deeper relationship than the frank pursuit of sexual pleasure implies, and some of the most moving pages of the book describe the relationships he entered into after the war, to which this always reviving hope led him on more than one fortunate-unfortunate occasion. At the same time the problems of an homosexual are seriously and wittily considered, not least when he finds himself the not entirely unconsenting object of desire by the opposite sex.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with In the Purely Pagan Sense (Gay Modern Classics). To get started finding In the Purely Pagan Sense (Gay Modern Classics), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 255

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: GMP Publishers Ltd

Release: 1994

ISBN: 090704056X

Description: Jack Marlowe, based on the author, roams from the Bloomsbury of London to circles in Paris and Berlin, 1920s through the Blitz, exploring his sexuality. He decides that his "education" in gay life was "extremely important." Author John Lehmann (1907-1987) was a poet, journalist, publisher and influential editor. This fictionalized memoir was first published in 1976. "Reads almost like a documentary...with insight and exactness," wrote the Financial Times.------------Below copy is from the first-edition dust jacket (1976)John Lehmann's first novel for many years tells the story of a young and happy homosexual emerging in the 1920s to enjoy, in the purely pagan sense, all that the sensual world has to offer. In these confessions, Jack Marlowe starts off as a golden youth with golden connections. His progress from private to public school and university, leads him gracefully into the arms of the Bloomsbury Group. Soon, his pursuit of sexuality lures him to Europe, to the Berlin of Mr. Norris, the Vienna of lederhosen, and then back to London's blitz where anything goes in the black-out and under the bombers. Behind the sensual narrative there is also an accurate picture of between-war Europe. The mandarins of London's intelligentsia are not all they seem to be; under the frenzied travesties of Berlin lies the terror of Nazism; and, after the Anschluss, gaiety dies in Vienna. But Jack Marlowe never abandons his hope of a deeper relationship than the frank pursuit of sexual pleasure implies, and some of the most moving pages of the book describe the relationships he entered into after the war, to which this always reviving hope led him on more than one fortunate-unfortunate occasion. At the same time the problems of an homosexual are seriously and wittily considered, not least when he finds himself the not entirely unconsenting object of desire by the opposite sex.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with In the Purely Pagan Sense (Gay Modern Classics). To get started finding In the Purely Pagan Sense (Gay Modern Classics), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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