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Fabulous Tricks: Stories by Gay Men
160 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1992
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David Rees
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David Rees was born in London in 1936, but lived most of his adult life in Devon, where for many years he taught English Literature at Exeter University and at California State University, San Jose. In 1984, he took early retirement in order to write full-time. Author of forty-two books, he is best known for his children's novel The Exeter Blitz, which in 1978 was awarded the Carnegie Medal (UK), and The Milkman's On His Way, which, having survived much absurd controversy in Parliament, is now regarded as something of a gay classic. He also won The Other Award (UK) for his historical novel The Green Bough of Liberty. David Rees died in 1993.
David Rees was born in London in 1936, but lived most of his adult life in Devon, where for many years he taught English Literature at Exeter University and at California State University, San Jose. In 1984, he took early retirement in order to write full-time. Author of forty-two books, he is best known for his children's novel The Exeter Blitz, which in 1978 was awarded the Carnegie Medal (UK), and The Milkman's On His Way, which, having survived much absurd controversy in Parliament, is now regarded as something of a gay classic. He also won The Other Award (UK) for his historical novel The Green Bough of Liberty. David Rees died in 1993.
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March 24, 2024
Content summary (from the back cover of the book): 'Fabulous Tricks offers a kaleidoscope of gay life...Its fourteen stories take the reader from the hubbub of the city to the remotest of rural backwaters, offering glimpses, along the way, of the endless landscapes of the imagination...'
I often think that we, as in gay readers, forget how relatively recent our ability to write about gay lives, experiences and concerns is. In the UK it is barely 40 years since books like this anthology were new and exciting and different. There was so much to write about, so many new writers, it is very easy now to overlook or forget those early efforts - but when you consider how much there was to say that had never been said before and to an audience that was only just realising it's numbers, I cannot help but look back and enjoy these early stories from a gay world just stretching it's muscles and expressing its identity. Not all the stories here are great or exceptional, but they are all damned good and I think in time many will be rediscovered by gay men who may come to see that they had a lot of truth and wisdom to share.
I often think that we, as in gay readers, forget how relatively recent our ability to write about gay lives, experiences and concerns is. In the UK it is barely 40 years since books like this anthology were new and exciting and different. There was so much to write about, so many new writers, it is very easy now to overlook or forget those early efforts - but when you consider how much there was to say that had never been said before and to an audience that was only just realising it's numbers, I cannot help but look back and enjoy these early stories from a gay world just stretching it's muscles and expressing its identity. Not all the stories here are great or exceptional, but they are all damned good and I think in time many will be rediscovered by gay men who may come to see that they had a lot of truth and wisdom to share.
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