The Violet Quill reader : the emergence of gay writing after Stonewall / edited by David Bergman.
| Other author | Bergman, David, 1950- editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | New York : St. Martin's Press, 1994. |
| Description | xix, 410 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Letter to Ann and Alfred Corn / Edmund White -- Early correspondence of Andrew Holleran and Robert Ferro -- Rough cuts from a journal / Felice Picano -- Dancer from the dance / Andrew Holleran -- Nocturnes for the king of Naples / Edmund White -- The confessions of Danny Slocum / George Whitmore -- Aunt Persia and the Jesus man / Christopher Cox -- Sleeping soldiers / Andrew Holleran -- Slashed to ribbons, in defense of love / Felice Picano -- The family of Max Desir / Robert Ferro -- A boy's own story / Edmund White -- Dark disco : a lament / Andrew Holleran -- Getting rid of Robert / George Whitmore -- Nights in Aruba / Andrew Holleran -- The blue star / Robert Ferro -- Nebraska / George Whitmore -- The last diary / Michael Grumley -- Second son / Robert Ferro -- Life drawing / Michael Grumley -- An oracle / Edmund White -- Bearing witness / George Whitmore -- The symmetry! / Felice Picano -- Gay literature today / Robert Ferro -- A place of their own / Andrew Holleran. |
| Review | "The Violet Quill Club brought together the finest and most important gay writers to emerge in the first generation after Stonewall, writers who consciously set out to create gay literature. Edmund White, Andrew Holleran, Robert Ferro, Felice Picano, George Whitmore, Michael Grumley, and Christopher Cox - these are the writers whose novels, plays, short stories, and journalism defined what it was to be gay in that golden decade or so between the Stonewall Riots and the first announcements of AIDS." "The Violet Quill Reader includes work never before published: stories, essays, and letters available nowhere else, as well as selections from Michael Grumley's and Felice Picano's journals and the correspondence of Robert Ferro and Andrew Holleran. There are also excerpts from their most important novels: A Boy's Own Story, Dancer from the Dance, Family of Max Desir, and Nebraska, among others." "But The Violet Quill Reader is much more than a compendium of the first generation of post-Stonewall gay fiction. It is a portrait of the most exciting and tragic years of gay history, beginning in the heady possibilities of gay liberation, chronicling the roaring age of discos and Fire Island, and ending in the sober realities of AIDS." "Award-winning author and scholar David Bergman helps readers survey this rich and exciting treasury of gay literature with his illuminating introduction and incisive notes."--Jacket. |
| General note | The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 408-410). |
| Genre/form | Gay fiction. |
| Genre/form | Fiction. |
| Genre/form | Gay fiction. |
| Genre/form | LGBTQ+ fiction. |
| Genre/form | Gay fiction. |
| Genre/form | Romans homosexuels. |
| LCCN | 94000425 |
| ISBN | 031211091X |
| ISBN | 9780312110918 |