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Title: A Masterpiece
Review: The Real Thing is a literary novel first published by a mainstream publisher. It was widely received as a masterpiece of the epistolary style. It was PRE-STONEWALL, giving lie to the post-Stonewall hype that no novel with a gay theme had been published by any American mainstream publisher. The second edition (after the author's death) was published without his permission in a pornography series. Gay historians note: Stonewall, though important, did not extend to literature with the exception of helping create a sub-literary genus, gay literature. Unfortunate because this movement DECREASED the readership of gay-themed novels and shunted them to a sidetrack to be read only by gay readers. What would Proust say? Gide? What does Vidal say? EVERYBODY read Myra Breckenridge. Time for re-evaluations??? Yes, please.
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