Oh Dear!

Language: English

Published by Key Publishing Co., 1957

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Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.The Cary Collection

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REBOW, Milton [181] pp. Key Publishing Co. 1957 8 1/4" x 5 3/4" The story concerns a gay man who is going to commit suicide but first he must decide how to do it and what to wear and remember the trials that led him to this point of deepest despair. The whole book is the lead character Andy sitting in a chair over the course of a day and remembering his life. It was exciting, the suicide pulls you right in at the start and the life, Andy moves to Montreal and becomes a personal secretary and lives in a mansion on Mont Royal in the early 1950's. Gradually things go wrong but they all seem to later go right again, a bit of a Forest Gump kind of tale with less presidents. There is some homophobia in the book, Andy doesn't walk, he minces, he spends days wondering if he could be a man, straight men vomit after being in his presence, and more, but I can over look it for the camp, the time period, the story. Sitting in Manhattan, running out to the Automat for dinner after work designing shop windows, it was wonderfully dated.…

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Title
Oh Dear!
Author
REBOW, Milton
Publisher
Key Publishing Co.
Publication year
1957
Condition
Very Good
Dust jacket
Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
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Decorative Dust Jackets, Gay Interest, Novels

The Cary Collection

Bristol, CT, U.S.A.

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