RAYTER, JOE (pseud. of Mary McChesney). Asking for Trouble. Morrow 1955, pbr Pocket Books 1959. Murder mystery. A mannish, hardboiled lesbian plays an important part.
REHDER, JESSIE. Remembrance Way. G P Putnam’s Sons 1956. Retrospective tale in which the heroine recalls a summer in girl’s camp, when she was enslaved simultaneously to a domineering director (woman) and her daughter.
REMARQUE, ERICH MARIA. Arch of Triumph Appleton 1945, pbr Signet 1950, 1959.
+ RENAULT, MARY. Promise of Love. Morrow, 1939. Novel, in a hospital background, contains variant relationship, lightly treated.
The Middle Mist. Morrow, 1945. Excellent, humorous novel, featuring the boyish Leo (Leonora) who, with her [46] friend Helen, lives on a houseboat quite happily (“It only makes sense for the surplus women to arrange themselves one way or another.”) This is, beyond a doubt, the wittiest, most refreshing book on the list; the girls have problems, but they have them, and solve them, without any well-of-loneliness agonizing. The story is resolved in Leo’s gradual feminization and marriage.
The Last of the Wine. Pantheon, 1956 (m; Greek.).
The King Must Die. Pantheon 1958, pbr Pocket Books 1959. Minor male and female homosexuality in Cretan setting.
The Charioteer. Longmans, 1953, Pantheon hcr 1959. Male, major, femininely delicate. Virtually all of this writer’s work contains some reference, though sometimes remote and slight, to variance.
RENAULT, PAUL. Raw Interludes. Brookwood, 1957, scv. No relation to Mary Renault; since Renault, Mary, has a double plus, the editors agree we should invent a double minus.
RICE, CRAIG. Having Wonderful Crime. Simon & Schuster, 1943. Hilarious murder mystery leads into the byways and gay bars of Greenwich village.