Part 4 (2/2)

DURRELL, LAWRENCE. _Justine._ N. Y., Dutton, 1957.

_Balthazar._ N. Y., Dutton, 1958, (m).

_Mountolive._ N. Y., Dutton, 1959, (m).

_Clea._ N. Y. Dutton, 1960. The last volume of now-famous tetralogy, just released, winds up all of the loose ends of the other three.

The lesbian element is minor, but all four novels are excellent.

EICHRODT, JOHN. ”Nadia Devereaux”, ss in _s.e.xtet_, ed by Whit & Hallie Burnett. N. Y., McKay Co. 1951.

EISNER, SIMON. (pseud of Cyril Kornbluth). _The Naked Storm._ pbo, Lion Library, 1952, 1956. Mixed bag of pa.s.sengers on a transcontinental train, including a lesbian who tries to captivate a young girl and is murdered by another pa.s.senger to give her intended victim ”a chance at real happiness with a man.”

ENGSTRAND, STUART. _More Deaths than One._ Julian Messner 1955, pbr Signet 1957. Mannish woman defending effeminate husband against charge of rape by kidnapping his victim and hiding her out, goes through a nervous breakdown involving a morbid and macabre attachment to the girl; horrible.

_Sling and the Arrow._ Creative Age 1947, hcr Sun Dial n.d., pbr Signet ca. 1951, (m).

EMERY, CAROL. _Queer Affair._ pbo Beacon Books, 1957. Dancer Draga moves in with mannish Jo, runs into complications when she tries to desert Jo for a man. Evening waster but very good nevertheless ... the author got in some good att.i.tudes and philosophies when the publisher wasn't looking.

ENTERS, ANGNA. _Among the Daughters._ Coward McCann, 1955.

Autobiographical novel of a girl who, like the author, finally becomes a dancer and ch.o.r.eographer. A good deal of s.p.a.ce is devoted to a friends.h.i.+p between Lucy and another girl; the story is tinged with variance but never explicit.

ESTEY, NORBERT. _All My Sins._ A. A. Wyn, 1954. pbr Crest 1956.

fco. Few very minor variant episodes in a long novel of the French courtesan Ninon l'Enclos.

EUSTIS, HELEN. _The Horizontal Man._ Harper 1946, pbr Pocket Books 1955. Offbeat psychological murder mystery.

EVANS, LESLEY. _Strange are the Ways of Love._ pbo Crest 1959.

Love among the guitar-playing, folk-singing beatniks, with the lesbians playing Musical Beds. Evening waster.

EVANS, JOHN (pseud. of Howard Browne). _Halo in Bra.s.s._ Bobbs-Merrill 1949, pbr Bantam 1958. Hardboiled detective story; private eye Paul Pine is hired to locate runaway girl with no boy friends and many girl friends. Suspenseful, nice way to spend (not waste) a lazy evening.

EWERS, HANNS HEINZ. _Alraune._ John Day, 1929. Alraune is Evil incarnate-symbol of the Mandrake Root, destroying love in everyone with whom she comes in contact, bringing out their innate evil. Among those destroyed by Alraune are a pair of lesbian lovers. High-quality fantasy, unfortunately rare and rather expensive.

FADIMAN, EDWIN JR. _The 21 Inch Screen._ Doubleday 1958, pbr Signet 1960. TV bigshot Rex Lundy has woman trouble-his wife, his mistress, and his teen-age daughter. The latter is seeking the love she doesn't get at home from a Greenwich Village lesbian friend. Excellent modern fiction.

_The Gla.s.s Play Pen._ pbo Signet 1956. Rich girl loses her parents, loses her money, and turns expensive call girl. One lesbian episode, treated with tenderness and sympathy.

see also EDWINA MARK.

FAIR, ELIZABETH. _Bramton Wick._ Funk & Wagnalls 1954. fco. Cozy little story of cozy little English village, including two maiden ladies who have lived together for many years. ”It is all very light and airy and your old-maid aunt wouldn't think it at all odd.” Apt to be in libraries.

FAREWELL, NINA. _Someone to Love._ Messner 1959, pbr Popular Library, 1960. One brief, incomplete lesbian episode in a long, interesting novel of a woman's continual search for real love in a life filled with fleeting liaisons.

+ FERGUSON, MARGARET. _The Sign of the Ram._ London, Philadelphia, The Blakiston Co, 1944-45. Sherida comes as companion-secretary to crippled Leah, pa.s.sionately adored by her whole family including sixteen-year-old Christine. Subtly playing on Christine's emotions, Leah spurs her to the point where she attempts to murder Sherida. On the surface, the motivation is simply the love of power, but Christine's emotions are clearly variant; when the book was filmed, they carefully cast Christine as a girl of eleven, to make it unmistakable that her adoration was only ”childish.”

FIRBANK, RONALD. _The Flower Beneath the Foot._ in Five Novels, New Directions, 1949. ”Light and fluffy ... pure fun”.

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