The Charioteer by Mary Renault
Requirements: MOBI / ePUB reader, 879 kb | UK Edition – 1953
Overview: After enduring an injury at Dunkirk during World War II, Laurie Odell is sent to a rural veterans’ 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.
From the front Dust Jacket flap: "Miss Renault treats the whole subject with remarkable understanding. Her book does not plead for wider toleration, but, in a narrative of moving sincerity, shows the difficulties of those who, realizing their tragic predicament, fight to retrieve their lives from moral collapse in the face of a hostile society."
Genre: MM Literary Fiction
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