Twilight Men
1931
André Tellier
New York : Greenberg
American
Novel
338pp
Gay Men, Queer Experience
Open Access
And let your vaulted thunders roll
Where caverns keep . . .
I have no hiding but my circled soul,
And that asleep.
Summary
After the deaths of his two loves, Armand moves from France to face NY's artistic queer scene, the female sex worker hired by his father to seduce him, and self-discovery.
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Also see:
Lost Gay Novels: A Reference Guide to Fifty Works from the First Half of the Twentieth Century (2003) by Anthony Slide
"(E)Racing Edmund White: Queer Reading, Race, and Sexuality in A Boy’s Own Story" (2008) by Nicholas F. Rade. Contact me for text.
"Gay Men's Literature in the United States (190-1968): Uncovering the Buried Roots of a Queer Tradition" (2017) by Adam W. Burgess
Content & Trigger Warnings
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PARENTAL ABUSE: emotional abuse from absentee father of protagonist.
DRUG OVERDOSE: contributes to the death of the protagonist.
SUICIDE: Of one of the protagonist's lovers. In addition, the protagonist is implied to have committed suicide by a drug overdose.
