Strange Desires, Croydon Pub. 1952, pbr Avon, tct.
The Shame, 1959, (m). No masterpiece but an interesting story about a man spending a week with his dead Army friend’s wife and recalling his long relationship with the dead man; over the week he slowly comes to acknowledge, and come to terms with the fact that their relationship had had overtones of homosexuality.
HITT, ORRIE. Girl’s Dormitory. Beacon pbo 1958 scv.
Trapped. Beacon pbo 1954. scv.
Wayward Girl. Beacon pbo 1960 scv.
HOLK, AGNETE. The Straggler. (Trans, from the Danish by Anthony Hinton). London, Arco Pub. 1954, pbr tct.
Strange Friends, Pyramid Books 1955, very slightly abridged. Boyish Scandinavian Vita adopts a “little sister” but is quite unaware of the nature of her attraction to Hilda. In her late teens Hilda, stirred but unsatisfied by this attachment, makes an unwise marriage, and Vita undergoes a period of rootless drifting, a brief affair ending in separation, and finally makes a permanent arrangement with Hilda, whose unsuccessful marriage ended in divorce. Valuable for a portrait of European gay life, very unlike the American.
HOLLIDAY, DON. The Wild Night. Nightstand Books 1960 (no publisher’s address listed). Composite novel of six lives which converge on New Year’s Eve in a cheap Greenwich Village strip joint. “One of those unexpectedly good stories one finds among the floods of paperback trash.” One of the six characters is a lesbian.
HOLMES, (JOHN) CLELLON. Go. Scribner 1952, pbr Ace Books 1958, (m).