The Charioteer by Renault, Mary

The Charioteer (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375714184)

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The Charioteer by Renault, Mary

The Charioteer

$16.00
The Charioteer by Renault, Mary

The Charioteer

$16.00
Format: Paperback
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After enduring an injury at Dunkirk during World War II, Laurie Odell is sent to a rural veterans' hospital in England to convalesce. There he befriends the young, bright Andrew, a conscientious objector serving as an orderly. As they find solace and companionship together in the idyllic surroundings of the hospital, their friendship blooms into a discreet, chaste romance. Then one day, Ralph Lanyon, a mentor from Laurie's schoolboy days, suddenly reappears in Laurie's life, and draws him into a tight-knit social circle of world-weary gay men. Laurie is forced to choose between the sweet ideals of innocence and the distinct pleasures of experience.

Originally published in the United States in 1959, The Charioteer is a bold, unapologetic portrayal of male homosexuality during World War II that stands with Gore Vidal's The City and the Pillar and Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories as a monumental work in gay literature.

Author: Mary Renault
ISBN-10: 0375714189
ISBN-13: 9780375714184
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 05/13/2003
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.32w x 0.23d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 08/01/2003 pg. 143
By Mary Renault
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Mary Renault was born in London and educated at Oxford. She then trained for three years as a nurse, and wrote her first published novel, Promise of Love. Her next three novels were written while serving in WWII. After the war, she settled in South Africa and traveled considerably in Africa and Greece. It was at this time that she began writing her brilliant historical reconstructions of ancient Greece, including The King Must Die, The Last of the Wine, and The Persian Boy. She died in Cape Town in 1983.

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