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''Remarkable... entertaining... deft... moving... refreshing''
Daily Telegraph

''Textured literary portraits of the masculine mind and body''
Raymond Antrobus, author of The Perseverance

''Impeccably well researched and hugely enjoyable''
Nicole Flattery, author of Nothing Special

In October 1960, James Baldwin and John Cheever spoke on a panel together at San Francisco State College. The troubled state of American society was under discussion, which Baldwin incisively diagnosed as a ''failure of the masculine sensibility''.

Strange Relations explores this crisis in mid-century masculinity and the lives and works of four bisexual writers who fought to express and embody alternate possibilities. Building on Walt Whitman''s philosophy of the love between men, Ralf Webb considers the ways in which Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers, as well as Cheever and Baldwin, resisted i

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''Remarkable... entertaining... deft... moving... refreshing''Daily Telegraph''Textured literary portraits of the masculine mind and body''Raymond Antrobus, author of The Perseverance''Impeccably well... Read more

    Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
    Publication Date: 1/25/2024
    ISBN13: 9781399713214, 978-1399713214
    ISBN10: 1399713213

    Non Fiction , Biography

    Description

    ''Remarkable... entertaining... deft... moving... refreshing''
    Daily Telegraph

    ''Textured literary portraits of the masculine mind and body''
    Raymond Antrobus, author of The Perseverance

    ''Impeccably well researched and hugely enjoyable''
    Nicole Flattery, author of Nothing Special

    In October 1960, James Baldwin and John Cheever spoke on a panel together at San Francisco State College. The troubled state of American society was under discussion, which Baldwin incisively diagnosed as a ''failure of the masculine sensibility''.

    Strange Relations explores this crisis in mid-century masculinity and the lives and works of four bisexual writers who fought to express and embody alternate possibilities. Building on Walt Whitman''s philosophy of the love between men, Ralf Webb considers the ways in which Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers, as well as Cheever and Baldwin, resisted i

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