A FEW PAGES. ALONG COMES ROMANTIC MALE LEAD IN THIS CASE A DELICATE LITTLE FELLOW JUST GETTING OVER A ROMANTIC ATTACHMENT TO ANOTHER MAN (NEW TWIST), SO OF COURSE PRETTY GIRL AND DELICATE LITTLE FELLOW FALL INTO ONE ANOTHERS "NORMAL" ARMS AND FALL IN LOVE. THEY PROCEED TO GET REAL "NORMAL" ON THE LAST FEW PAGES.

139. WOMEN IN THE SHADOWS BY ANN BANNON. FAWCETT, 1959. (GOLD MEDAL #S919).

THE LIFE OF LAURA LANDON IS NOW A TRILOGY; WE MET HER FIRST IN ODD GIRL OUT, FAWCETT, 1957, AND THEN IN I AM A WOMAN, FAWCETT, 1959. IN THIS LATEST AND POSSIBLY LAST NOVEL ON LAURA, THE TONE HAS CHANGED FROM POSITIVE TO NEGATIVE, AND THE STORY BEGINS AND ENDS ON AN UNHAPPY NOTE FOR ALMOST EVERYONE CONCERNED.

THE TIME IS TWO YEARS AFTER LAURA AND BEEBO HAVE BEGUN LIVING TOGETHER, LAURA IS UNHAPPY AND DISSATISFIED WHILE BEEBO IS STILL VERY MUCH IN LOVE. LAURA MEETS A DANCER, TRIS, AND TRIES A LITTLE CASUAL SEX, BUT THIS FAILS, HER MALE FRIEND, JACK, HAS LOST HIS LOVER SO HE IS UNHAPPY TOO.

LAURA LEAVES BEEBO AND FORMS A PLATONIC MARRIAGE WITH JACK. AFTER MUCH TRIAL AND TROUBLE, TEARS AND TRIBULATION, IT SEEMS ALMOST POSSIBLE THAT LAURA AND JACK WILL BE ABLE TO MAKE A PURELY MENTAL MARRIAGE WORK OUT. BEEBO IS LEFT BROKEN IN SPIRIT AND PREMATURELY AGED BY LAURA'S DESERTION OF HER. INTERESTINGLY THE FOCUS IS SHIFTED IN THIS NOVEL IN ONE WAY. LAURA IS STILL THE MAIN PROTAGONIST, BUT BEEBO IS THE HEROINE.

140. FIRST PERSON...THIRD SEX BY SLOANE M. BRITAIN, LIBRARY, 1959 (7644 BELMONT AVE., CHICAGO, ILL.)

NEWSSTAND

THIS IS A MUST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL, PRICE $.50. BELIEVABLE AND WELL WRITTEN STORY OF THE ADJUSTMENT, THROUGH TWO DIFFERENT LOVE AFFAIRS, TO LESBIANISM. AUTHOR IS PROBABLY A WOMAN AND THE STORY IS REMARKABLY FREE OF CLICHE AND STEREOTYPE. THE READER IS LEFT BELIEVING IN THE PEOPLE, AND THE SITUATION AND THE EVENTUAL HAPPINESS FOR THE MAIN PROTAGONIST.

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