Gay Lives: Homosexual Autobiography from John Addington Symonds to Paul Monette

by Paul A. Robinson

Book Overview

In his autobiography, John Addington Symonds relates a glorious night of passion, in which he and his lover "lay covered from the cold in bed, tasting the honey of softly spoken words and the blossoms of lips pressed on lips." Christopher Isherwood's first autobiography, on the other hand, was far less direct; he wrote a second autobiography in part because the first was "not truly autobiographical" in that "the author conceals important facts about...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226721809
• ISBN13: 9780226721804
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"