ANDERSON, HELEN. Pity for Women. N. Y., Doubleday, 1937. An unhappy and tense relationship among three women, inhabitants of a women’s residence club in New York.
ANDERSON, SHERWOOD. Dark Laughter. N. Y., Boni & Liveright, 1925, pbr Pocket Books, 1952. Very slight.
Poor White; N. Y., B. W. Huebsch, 1920, hcr in The Portable Sherwood Anderson, qpb Viking Press P42. In the course of a novel about the rise of a “shantytown boy’s” rise to prosperity, there is a brief but extremely sympathetic portrait of the lesbian, Kate Chancellor; the hero’s wife, Clara, is briefly captivated by Kate during her college days.
ANDREYA, GUY. Tormented Venus. N. Y. Key Pub. Co 1958. scv.
ANONYMOUS. Adam and Two Eves. Macauley Co, N. Y., 1934, pbr Beacon Books 1956. Evening waster. Neurotically heartbroken woman mourning her dead lover becomes entangled with a married woman because a woman’s love does not constitute infidelity to the dead; once initiated she becomes entangled in a long affair a trois, from which she is eventually extricated (somewhat the worse for wear) by a man she later marries.
ANTHOLZ, PEYSON. All Shook Up. pbo, Ace Books, 1958, (m). Alan, small-town teen-age rowdy, fights against his friendship with newcomer Howard Sirche, because it is rumored that Howard, who avoids women, is homosexual. Very good of its kind.
ANTON, CAL. The Private Life of a Strip Tease Girl. pbo, Beacon 1959, scv. Just what it sounds like. Among her many “affairs” is a brief episode with another girl.
ASQUITH, CYNTHIA. “The Lovely Voice”. ss, in This Mortal Coil. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin. Fantasy, 1947
BAKER, DENYS VAL. A Journey With Love. Bridgehead Books, 1955, pbr Crest Books 1956. fco. The hero’s first marriage fails because of his wife’s insistence that a woman friend shall share their home. Nothing is explicit.