GENTLEMEN, I ADDRESS YOU PRIVATELY

by Kay Boyle ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

Better know exactly what is in this book before selling it, as many of your customers will be shocked or puzzled. It is frankly a disappointment after the magic of YEAR BEFORE LAST and the fascination of PLAGUED BY A NIGHTINGALE... Written with a subtle charm, filled with vivid descriptions of Brittany and its people, the book leads one, unaware, into a tragic story of a talented young musician, turned from the monastic life he had chosen, because of his secular music, and of how he became unwittingly and innocently involved in a homosexual passion for a cruel pervert, a sailor who has deserted his ship, made off with possessions of his superior officers, broken his sister's heart, and willing to trample on whatever comes his way. Fleeing the authorities together, they take refuge with a strange couple, and make companions of three girls from a brothel, girls who are themselves homosexual, and who eventually take the vagabond sailor with them to Italy, leaving tragedy behind. An unpleasant and unnecessary story.

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Publisher: Smith & Haas

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1933

Categories: FICTION