Gay Book of Days - Couverture rigide

Martin, Greif; Greif, Martin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0818403322 ISBN 13 : 9780818403323

Editeur : Lyle Stuart, 1982

Synopsis

There’s never been a book quite like this one. There are lots of Books of This and That—Books of Hours, of Kells, of Martyrs—but “The Gay Book of Days” is not like any of them. It is rowdy, rambunctious, and racy. It is sprightly and gay—both in the modern usage f that second word, and in the ‘merrie’ sense of jollity and wit. It is an astonishing collection of fact and lore about hundreds of world-famous men and women who are, were, may have been homosexual during the past 5,000 years. Who would ever imagine that the Danish tenor Lauritz Melchior was actually the personal Great Dane of writer Hugh Walpole? Or that Melchior and poet Hart Crane owned common stock in a well-proportioned sailor? That Cole Porter and Jackie O’s daddy were once an item? That both Winston Churchill and Marilyn Monroe strayed occasionally from the straight and narrow? Or that the saintly inventor of the American dream, Horatio Alger, wore his wickedness like a sulfurous halo? You’ll find them all here, their peccadilloes and fetishes and hangups and pleasures. “The Gay Book of Days” uses humor to make a very serious point: that gayness has always been a natural condition of kings, composers, engineers, poets, housewives, and bus drivers—that it is, has been, and always will be a, vital part of the human experience. [Texte repris par FreelancerFR]

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lyle Stuart
• Date d'édition: 1982
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0818403322
• ISBN 13: 9780818403323
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible