The charioteer.

Description:

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.

subjects: Fiction,  World War, 1939-1945,  Gay men,  Veterans' hospitals,  Veterans,  Conscientious objectors,  Fiction, psychological,  Fiction, historical,  World war, 1939-1945, fiction,  Gay men, fiction,  England, fiction,  Fiction, gay,  Fiction, historical, general,  Fiction, romance, historical, general,  LGBTQ fiction before Stonewall,  World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924 (uri) http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01180924

Places: England

Times: World War II