+ The Evil Friendship. pbo Crest 1958. Viciously condemnatory novel of two little girls of fourteen who, consequent to their lesbianish attachment, plot together and carry out “a murder club”. Shuddersome, but, alas, well written. (Editorial query; why must so many of the detractors of lesbianism write such good books, while those who defend it are, all to often, of the Carol Hales “quality”?)
The Twisted Ones. pbo, Gold Medal 1959, (m).
PARK, JORDAN. (pseud of Cyril Kornbluth). Valerie. pbo, Lion, 1953, 1957. Minor lesbian episodes in a novel of witch-hunting; the episodes occur at a Witches Sabbat. Evening waster.
PARKER, DOROTHY: “Glory in the Daytime” in After Such Pleasures, N. Y., Viking 1934.
PATTON, MARION. Dance on the Tortoise. N. Y., Dial 1930. Boarding-school novel; the heroine, repelled by the emotional friendships around her, throws herself with relief into the arms of a man.
PAVESE, CESARE. Among Women Only. Noonday Press, qpb 1959 ($1.75). Recommended, highly tragic, novel by a writer considered, until his untimely death, one of Italy’s best.
+ PETERS, FRITZ. Finistere. Farrar, Straus & Co 1951, pbr Signet 1953, (m).
+ PETRONIUS, The Satyricon. (the earliest known novel, written about the time of Christ; the last flush of the pagan world.) Trans. William Arrowsmith, University of Michigan Press, 1959. This is also available in a highly expurgated Modern Library edition, n. d. Male, of course, and the Arrowsmith translation is hilarious and very readable.
PEN, JOHN. Temptation. (trans. from the Hungarian by John Manheim,) Avon Red and Gold, 1959, (m). Fine picaresque.
PEYREFITTE, ROGER. Special Friendships. NY, Vanguard 1950, (m).