RYAN, MARK. Twisted Loves. Bedside Books 1959, pbo, scv.
SABATIER, ROBERT. Boulevard. (Prix de Paris award novel, trans. from French by Lowell Blair). David McKay 1958, pbr Dell 59, (m). Marginal.
SACKVILLE-WEST, VICTORIA. The Dark Island. Doubleday, 1934. Shirin is the over-emotional, unconventional wife of Venn, dour owner of the “dark island”, Storn. He treats Shirin so badly that she seeks companionship, love and affection from Christina, her husband’s secretary; through jealousy (not unmixed with pure sadism) Venn arranges for Christina to be drowned in a boating “accident”. Haunting.
+ SALEM, RANDY. Chris. Beacon pbo, 1959. The plus indicates good of kind, not intrinsic merit. An interesting story of a lesbian triangle—Chris, Dizz, and young Carol. One reader commented that this story was a sort of lesbian dreamworld—these women seemed to live in a society, and a world, completely unmixed with ordinary life at all. Certainly they are all treated as quite the ordinary thing, and there are almost no hints that there is a heterosexual world outside the gay one, which must be taken into account. Certainly it makes no incursions into the novel. Chris, a conchologist, her life complicated by her frigid girl-friend Dizz, suffers and drinks too much and sleeps around until Carol, one of her random pick-ups, decides to stick to her, and eventually frees Chris from this attachment. Good but unreal.
+ SANDBURG, HELGA. The Wheel of Earth. McDowell, Oblensky 1958. Roughly a third of a long novel of Midwestern rural life deals with the lengthy attachment between Frankie Gaddy and an older woman, Genevieve.
SARTON, MAY. A Shower of Summer Days. Rinehart, 1952.
SARTRE, JEAN-PAUL. No Exit. Knopf 1947, qpb Vintage 1955. Play.
SAVAGE KIM. Girl’s Dorm. Vixen Press 1952.
Baby Makes Three. Vixen, 1953. No reports on either of these, but in view of the publisher they are probably evening wasters at best.