LESBIANA

BY GENE DAMON

146. REBEL WOMAN BY HARRY WHITTINGTON. AVON, 1960. AVON BOOKS DIVISION, HEARST CORPORATION, 959 EIGHTH AVE., NEW YORK 19, NEW YORK. $.35.

UNUSUAL SETTING--CUBA DURING THE CASTRO REVOLUT | ON--AND

GOOD WRITING MARK THIS AS A MUST.

STORY IS BASICALLY A

SPY THRILLER BUT THERE IS SUBSTANTIAL LESBIAN INTEREST. CAPTAIN MIRTHA ROSALES AND HER SOLDIER GIRLFRIEND, DOLORES, AND THEIR ADVENTURES ARE TOLD ABOUT AGAINST A WAR-TORN BACKGROUND. FAST PACE, PLEASANT EVENING.

147. MARIANNE BY FREDERIC MULLALLY. VIKING, 1960. VIKING PRESS, 625 MADISON AVE., NEW YORK 22, NEW YORK. $3.95.

A YOUNG MAN WEEPING AT A PARTY OVER THE NOW-DEAD MARIANNE. A BEAUTIFUL, EXCITING FRENCH LESBIAN PROFESSING LOVE FOREVER EVEN THOUGH SHE MUST ALWAYS WEAR DARK GLASSES AS A CONSEQUENCE OF HER LOVE FOR MARIANNE. A NOTED ARTIST DYING OF A HEART ATTACK AFTER LOSING MARIANNE. FRANKY, THE EXOTIC NEGRO WOMAN WHO ROOMED(?) WITH MARIANNE. THE CANADIAN WOMAN WRITER WHO DIDN'T KNOW MARIANNE WAS DEAD. THE JOURNALIST WHO FOLLOWED THE TRAIL AND FOUND THEM ALL AND OTHERS WITH JUST ONE THING IN COMMON: LOVE FOR MARIANNE.

148. JUSTINE.

BALTHAZAR. MOUNTOLIVE. CLEA. BY LAWRENCE DURRELL. DUTTON PRESS, NEW YORK, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960.

THESE FOUR NOVELS COMPRISE THE "ALEXANDRIA QUARTET" AND DEAL PRIMARILY WITH ALL KINDS OF EMOTIONAL LOVE. WHAT SETS THEM APART FROM THE MERE NOVEL OF TODAY IS THE QUALITY OF THE WRITING AND THE DEPTH OF THE ANALYSIS EMPLOYED. ANY ATTEMPT TO REDUCE THE FLCT INTO A NEAT ANNOTATION WOULD BE LUDICROUS, BUT READERS OF THIS COLUMN WILL BE INTERESTED

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