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    <![CDATA[The Charioteer]]>
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    <![CDATA[After enduring an injury at Dunkirk during World War II, Laurie Odell is sent to a rural veteran's  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. <br/><br/>Originally published in the United States in 1959, <strong>The Charioteer</strong> is a bold, unapologetic portrayal of male homosexuality during World War II that stands with Gore Vidal's <strong>The City and the Pillar</strong> and Christopher  Isherwood's <strong>Berlin Stories</strong> as a monumental work in gay literature.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is unspeakably beautiful. It demonstrates that character can be held over plot, that drama needn't be melodrama, and that romance needn't be sickly, vulgar, hackneyed or gauche. From the descriptions of the countryside to the painfully evocative and familiar situations Laurie finds himself...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22128210">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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