LESBIANA

200. BLISS BLISS by Katherine Mansfield. Short story in "Short Stories by Katherine Mansfield. Knopf, 1920, 1937.

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Clever story of a married repressed Lesbian whose latest lady friend turns out to be her husband's 80 cret lovo.

THE LAST OF THE SOUTHERN WINDS by David Loovis, Scribners, 1961.

A number of interesting Lesbian and male homosexual relationships dot the landscape in this "characters in Juxtaposition" type novel laid in Key Wost, Florida.

Minor, but rewarding.

LOVE AND DEATH IN THE AMERICAN NOVEL by Leslie A. Fiedlor. Criterion, New York, 1960.

Depth study of fiction in America from 1789 to the present. Author feels that virtually all of our writers are obsessed with "death, incest and innocent homosexuality" and spends over 600 pages proving it. However, ho discusses some far from innooont homosexuality along the way and flavors the whole thing with some ingenious remarks, such as saying that Truman Capote acts "tho olegant, sad androgyne half reigning beauty and half freak." Mr. Fiedler does also present fair and sympathetic oriticism of such novels as NIGHTWOOD by Djuna Barnes and HEROES AND ORATORS by Robert Phelps. This is a must for the serious student and it will be fun for even the casual reader of homosexual literature.

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203. TOMBOY by Arline McNamee Hammond. Comet Press, 1960.

Reviewed primarily for its inherent idiocy. A vanity published novol about a girl who apparently bolieves her "ductless glands" are turning her into a Lesbian. It has to be read to be believed.

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