The Charioteer :A Virago Modern Classic - Virago Modern Classics

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The Charioteer

The Charioteer :A Virago Modern Classic - Virago Modern Classics

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Injured at Dunkirk, Laurie Odell, a young corporal, is recovering at a rural veterans' hospital. There he meets Andrew, a conscientious objector serving as an orderly, and the men find solace in their covert friendship. Then Ralph Lanyon appears, a mentor from Laurie's schooldays. Through him, Laurie is drawn into a tight-knit circle of gay men for whom liaisons are fleeting and he is forced to choose between the ideals of a perfect friendship and the pleasures of experience. First published in 1953, The Charioteer is a a tender, intelligent coming-of-age novel and a bold, unapologetic portrayal of homosexuality that stands with Gore Vidal's The City and the Pillar and James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room as a landmark work in gay literature.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781844089505
ISBN10 1844089509
Number Of Pages 432
Item Weight 360 g
Product Dimensions 197 x 127 x 27 mm
Publisher / Reseller Little, Brown Book Group
Format paperback
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Emotionally intelligent, beautifully written and deeply moving, it transcends categorisations. -- Peter Parker Daily Telegraph A stunningly good book -- Antonia Senior The Times A tender coming-of-age love story from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century Daily Express

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Author's Bio

Mary Renault (1905-1983) was born in London and educated at St Hughs, Oxford. She trained as a nurse at Oxford's Radcliffe Infirmary, where she met her lifelong partner, Julie Mullard. Her first novel, Purposes of Love, was published in 1937. In 1948, after North Face won a MGM prize worth $150,000, she and Mullard emigrated to South Africa. There, Renault was able to write forthrightly about homosexual relationships for the first time - in her masterpiece, The Charioteer (1953), and then in her first historical novel, The Last of the Wine (1956). Renault's vivid novels set in the ancient world brought her worldwide fame. In 2010 Fire From Heaven was shortlisted for the Lost Booker of 1970.

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