No End to the Way
London: Barrie & Rockliff, 1965. First edition, octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 240. Dustjacket design by Barbara Walton. Dustjacket worn to edges. Previous owner's stamp front free endpaper, chipping to the edge of the halftitle page, otherwise in very good condition in like d.j. Scarce.
Novel set in Perth, Western Australia, portraying gay relationships, necessarly for the time published under a psuedonym. "Published in 1965 in Britain then banned in Australia for over a year for its frank portrayal of a homosexual relationship, it draws heavily on Glaskin’s own life and the gay community in 1950s–60s Perth. Several of his friends and acquaintances appear as characters in the story, not all of whom were pleased to discover this. The novel is important for a number of reasons. It drew attention to the injustices suffered by gay men, who lives were governed by fear and who were forced to live in secret. Unlike other gay novels of its era, it did not have the ‘obligatory’ tragic ending (homosexuality was a crime, hence any novel that appeared to condone it was breaking the law). Most of all, it affirmed the experience and integrity of many gay men, as judged by the enormous amount of fan mail the book generated from around the world." John Burbidge, Glaskin's biographer. Item #106352
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