Mae West is Dead: Recent Lesbian and Gay Fiction - Softcover

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9780571131884: Mae West is Dead: Recent Lesbian and Gay Fiction

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571131883 ISBN 13: 9780571131884

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 1983

Mae West is Dead represents the best of contemporary lesbian and gay fiction in Britain and the United States. This edition includes a new story by Adam Mars-Jones.

'Adam Mars-Jones . . . has discovered wit, dignity and stylishness . . . Stereotypes, glitzy trash, self-consciousness, voyeurism, self-pity, self-importance and gratuitous physical detail find no place in Mae West is Dead. Nearly all the stories are well-written, witty or wise. They are organized in an often suggestive sequence, there is a good variety of homosexual topic, and an impressive mixture of sensuality and pathos.' Literary Review

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About the Author:

Adam Mars-Jones's first book of stories, Lantern Lecture, was published in 1981 and won a Somerset Maugham Award. In 1983 and again in 1993 he was named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, despite not having produced a novel at the time. His Zen status as an acclaimed novelist without a novel was dented by the appearance of The Waters of Thirst, and can only suffer further with the appearance of Pilcrow, described by Margaret Drabble as 'one of the most remarkable novels I have read in recent years.'

Synopsis:

Gathers British and American short stories about the lives of lesbians and homosexuals.

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