MAE WEST IS DEAD - recent Lesbian and Gay Fiction

MARS-JONES, ADAM (editor)

ISBN 10: 0571131883 / ISBN 13: 9780571131884

Published by Faber & Faber, London & Boston, 1983

About this Item

The book represents the best of contemporary lesbian and gay fiction, both in Britain and the United States. 21 stories, with biographical notes. 312 pag. Seller Inventory # 002260

Bibliographic Details

Title: MAE WEST IS DEAD - recent Lesbian and Gay ...

Publisher: Faber & Faber, London & Boston

Publication Date: 1983

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine copy.

Edition: 1st edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

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

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.'