The Palace of Varieties
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By: James Lear
Format: Paperback
From: CLEIS PRESS
Pub. Date: March 2008
From: CLEIS PRESS
Pub. Date: March 2008
Product Details:
Catalog: Book
Release Date: 2008-04-03
Media: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 280
Ean: 9781573443142
Isbn: 157344314X
Catalog: Book
Release Date: 2008-04-03
Media: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 280
Ean: 9781573443142
Isbn: 157344314X
ABOUT THE BOOK
EDITORIAL REVIEW
This extremely graphic novel brims with male sex from the sordid to the sublime, in every position, place and variety! Hero Paul Lemoyne leaves his humble home to begin a new life as a music hall stagehand, but soon discovers there are richer pickings to be had from the stage-door johnnies who haunt the Palace of Varieties' Music Hall. And thus begins the rake's progress from low-life prostitution to the salons and studios of Mayfair, from the bathhouses of Bermondsey to the rarefied circles of modern art - while his lover and corrupter lurks behind the scenes...
USER REVIEWS
"This is the book I wish I'd written myself. It's sleazy and highly explicit; not for the faint-hearted. But it summons up brilliantly the atmosphere of the Halls and of the queer subculture of the thirties, (not that I remember!)
Paul Lemoyne is a pretty unpleasant character, but like his few real friends, you can't quite abandon him, and despite yourself, you care what happens to him. I suppose the fact that he knows he's behaving badly is a considerable redeeming feature. The end suggests that this may be the first of a series -- I would guess a trilogy -- a prospect which makes me very happy.
The book is written in spare prose and with a lightness of touch which makes it a pleasure to read."
~ Written on 2006-11-18
Paul Lemoyne is a pretty unpleasant character, but like his few real friends, you can't quite abandon him, and despite yourself, you care what happens to him. I suppose the fact that he knows he's behaving badly is a considerable redeeming feature. The end suggests that this may be the first of a series -- I would guess a trilogy -- a prospect which makes me very happy.
The book is written in spare prose and with a lightness of touch which makes it a pleasure to read."
~ Written on 2006-11-18