The Damned Dont Cry They Just Disappear

Author : Harlan Greene
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611178126
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Damned Don't Cry - They Just Disappear written by Harlan Greene and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2017-12-29 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of an unconventional Southern writer who illuminated gay life in the South In The Damned Don't Cry—They Just Disappear, literary historian and Lamba Award-winning novelist Harlan Greene has created a portrait of a nearly forgotten southern writer, unearthing information from archives, rare books, film libraries,and small-town newspapers. Greene brings Harry Hervey (1900-1951) to life and explicates his works to reveal him as a hardworking writer and master of many genres, bravely unwilling to conform to conventional values. As Greene illustrates, Hervey's novels, short stories, nonfiction books, and film scripts contain complex mixtures of history and thinly disguised homoerotic situations and themes. They blend local color, naturalism, melodrama, and psychological and sexual truths that provide a view to the circles in which he moved. Living openly with his male lover in Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina, Hervey set novels in these cities that scandalized the locals and critics as well. He challenged the sexual mores of his day, sometimes subtly and at other times brazenly presenting texts that told one story to gay male readers, while still courting a mainstream audience. His novels and nonfiction may have been coded and thus escaped detection in their day, but twenty-first century readers can decipher them easily. Greene also discusses Hervey's travel books and successful Hollywood scriptwriting, as well as his use of exotic elements from Asian cultures. The iconic film Shanghai Express, starring Marlene Dietrich, was based on one of his original stories. He also wrote some of the first travel books on Indochina, with descriptions of male and female prostitution and allusions to his own sexual adventures, which still make for sensational reading today. Despite Hervey's output and his perseverance in presenting gay characters and themes as openly as he could, he has not been included in any survey of twentieth-century gay writers. Greene now rectifies this omission, providing the first book-length study of Hervey's life and work and the first scholarly attention to him in more than fifty years. It furthers our understanding of gay life in the South, as well as the impact of gay artists on popular culture in the first half of the twentieth century.

Author : Jim Downs
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231549873
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reckoning with History written by Jim Downs and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reckoning with History brings together original essays from a diverse group of historians who consider how writing about the past can engage with the urgent issues of the present. The contributors—all former students of the distinguished Columbia University historian Eric Foner—explore the uses and politics of history through key episodes across a wide range of struggles for freedom. They shed new light on how different groups have defined and fought for freedom throughout American history, as well as the ways in which the ideal of freedom remains unrealized today. Covering a broad range of topics, these essays offer insight into how historians practice their craft in different ways and illuminate what it means to be a socially and politically engaged historian.

Author : Elizabeth Findley Shores
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 161075736X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shared Secrets written by Elizabeth Findley Shores and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2021-02-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2023 Booker Worthern Literary Prize For nearly a century, British expatriate Charles Joseph Finger (1867–1941) was best known as an award-winning author of children’s literature. In Shared Secrets, Elizabeth Findley Shores relates Finger’s untold story, exploring the secrets that connected the author to an international community of twentieth-century queer literati. As a young man, Finger reveled in the easy homosociality of his London polytechnical school, where he launched a student literary society in the mold of the city’s private men’s clubs. Throughout his life, as he wandered from England to Patagonia to the United States, he tried to recreate similarly open spaces—such as Gayeta, his would-be art colony in Arkansas. But it was through his idiosyncratic magazine All’s Well that he constructed his most successful social network, writing articles filled with coded signals and winking asides for an inner circle of understanding readers. Capitalizing on the publishing opportunities of the day, Finger used every means available to express his twin loves—literature and men. He produced an enormous body of work, and his short, semiautobiographical fiction won some critical acclaim. Ultimately, the children’s book that won Finger a Newbery Medal ushered him into the public eye, ending his development as an author of serious queer literature. Shared Secrets is both the story of Finger’s remarkable, adventurous life and a rare look at a community of gay writers and artists who helped shaped twentieth-century American culture, even as they artfully concealed their own identities.

Author : C.A. Wilson
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1604949341
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cry for the Children written by C.A. Wilson and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles de Lint
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429911271
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Onion Girl written by Charles de Lint and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2002-08-03 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2017 Aurora Awards Best of Decade Finalist In novel after novel, and story after story, Charles de Lint has brought an entire imaginary North American city to vivid life. Newford: where magic lights dark streets; where myths walk clothed in modern shapes; where a broad cast of extraordinary and affecting people work to keep the whole world turning. At the center of all the entwined lives in Newford stands a young artist named Jilly Coppercorn, with her tangled hair, her paint-splattered jeans, a smile perpetually on her lips--Jilly, whose paintings capture the hidden beings that dwell in the city's shadows. Now, at last, de Lint tells Jilly's own story...for behind the painter's fey charm lies a dark secret and a past she's labored to forget. And that past is coming to claim her now. "I'm the onion girl," Jilly Coppercorn says. "Pull back the layers of my life, and you won't find anything at the core. Just a broken child. A hollow girl." She's very, very good at running. But life has just forced Jilly to stop. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : L.D. Stevens
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462813267
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Keeping Enemies Closer written by L.D. Stevens and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-09-27 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shelby Harrison had everything she could ask for in this world—a wealthy father who doted on her, a great career, and wonderful friends. She thought she had everything she would ever need. Yet when Troy Matthews, the backup quarterback for the Tennessee Vipers, walked into her life with his megawatt smile, she finally knew what she’d been missing. Even though she’d witnessed a horrifying tragedy at a young age that forever changed her life, she kept her hopes high for a future that would let her keep everything she loved. At last, her life seemed to be destined for true happiness. But there were those who would try to take all of that away from her — those whose jealousy, rage, and envy ruled their worlds. Emotions she never felt in herself but powerful enough in others who would stop at nothing to rip her world to shreds and torment her in her nightmares, bringing them menacingly into her life. When disturbing events and seemingly random vicious acts converge, who does she trust? Is everyone in her life as they appear, or is someone hiding a sinister secret? A secret that could destroy her world - or cost her her life.

Author : Dixie Browning
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1459257979
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A KNIGHT IN RUSTY ARMOR written by Dixie Browning and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MEN of the YEAR MAN of the MONTH "I'm not a family man, but I sure as hell am willing to try." Travis Holiday, former Coast Guard officerWhen Travis learned he had a son, he'd gone into emergency mode: build a home, become a dad, settle down. No more heroics. But when he came upon the dark-haired goddess stranded in a coastal storm, Trav just had to help. He knew Ruanna Roberts was running from something…but all that mattered now was his son. So why did his arms instinctively open up to Ruanna—and not let go? Some men are made for lovin'—and you'll love our MAN OF THE MONTH, the last of The Lawless Heirs! THE LAWLESS HEIRS

Author : Licio
Publisher : Babelcube Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1507198760
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Falling in Love at Harrods written by Licio and published by Babelcube Inc.. This book was released on 2018-04-08 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul works as a criminal defense lawyer in London and is about to marry his fiancée Marcia. What he doesn’t expect is Melissa, a fiery Italian girl, and the sinful attraction between them. After a meeting at Harrods, a fight, and a seductive battle of will in a dressing-room at the famous mall, the evening continues on Paul's floor. But it doesn’t end there... The attraction turns into sarcastic and pungent quips, but will they be able to push the other out of their life for good, or does fate have something else in mind for them? Sex, comedy, and romance in a book that will leave you breathless

Author : Forrest Leo
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399562656
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gentleman written by Forrest Leo and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A funny, fantastically entertaining debut novel, in the spirit of Wodehouse and Monty Python, about a famous poet who inadvertently sells his wife to the devil--then recruits a band of adventurers to rescue her. When Lionel Savage, a popular poet in Victorian London, learns from his butler that they're broke, he marries the beautiful Vivien Lancaster for her money, only to find that his muse has abandoned him. Distraught and contemplating suicide, Savage accidentally conjures the Devil -- the polite "Gentleman" of the title -- who appears at one of the society parties Savage abhors. The two hit it off: the Devil talks about his home, where he employs Dante as a gardener; Savage lends him a volume of Tennyson. But when the party's over and Vivien has disappeared, the poet concludes in horror that he must have inadvertently sold his wife to the dark lord. Newly in love with Vivien, Savage plans a rescue mission to Hell that includes Simmons, the butler; Tompkins, the bookseller; Ashley Lancaster, swashbuckling Buddhist; Will Kensington, inventor of a flying machine; and Savage's spirited kid sister, Lizzie, freshly booted from boarding school for a "dalliance." Throughout, his cousin's quibbling footnotes to the text push the story into comedy nirvana. Lionel and his friends encounter trapdoors, duels, anarchist-fearing bobbies, the social pressure of not knowing enough about art history, and the poisonous wit of his poetical archenemy. Fresh, action-packed and very, very funny, The Gentleman is a giddy farce that recalls the masterful confections of P.G. Wodehouse and Hergé's beautifully detailed Tintin adventures.

Author : Shirley Rogerson
Publisher : Shirley Rogerson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russ written by Shirley Rogerson and published by Shirley Rogerson. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caught in bed naked with his boss’s sister, Russ Logan was forced into a shotgun engagement to Lynn McCall. But the stone-hearted, loner ranch foreman resisted . . . until he realized that this sexy, tenacious spitfire who given him her virtue could be pregnant with his child. Beautiful Lynn McCall wasn’t about to relinquish her independence and marry a man she didn’t love. And there was no way she’d ever get deeper involved with the most arrogant, heartless . . . and yes, sexiest man she’d ever known. But each time they kissed, Lynn began to forget their engagement was only to protect her reputation, and she began wondering if she was the one woman Russ could truly love . . .