Palace of Varieties
ISBN-13: 9781573443142
Contributor(s): James Lear
Subject: Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post 1945)
Publisher Imprint: Cleis Press
Publication Date: 12-06-2008
Format: Paperback
Availability: Out of stock
£15.99
About the book
This extremely graphic novel brims with male sex from the sordid to the sublime, in every position, place and variety! Hero Paul Lemoyne leaves his humble home to begin a new life as a music hall stagehand, but soon discovers there are richer pickings to be had from the stage-door johnnies who haunt the Palace of Varieties' Music Hall. And thus begins the rake's progress from low-life prostitution to the salons and studios of Mayfair, from the bathhouses of Bermondsey to the rarefied circles of modern art - while his lover and corrupter lurks behind the scenes...