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Fairyland
by Sumner Locke Elliott.
Pan Macmillan, Sydney, 1991.
First Australian Edition, paperback. 249 pp.
Cover design: David Legge
‘After reading this intensely sad novel, the reader can only fall back on counting his or her blessings: At least I’m not a gay person in Australia, living in a working-class neighbourhood between the two great wars … “Fairyland” is very much like E. M. Forster’s “Maurice.” It’s also like some of the very early Christopher Isherwood – except that he was sophisticated enough to at least make a careless attempt to cover his tracks. To change metaphors, “Fairyland” is as sad and painful as an open wound. There’s no bandage available, no treatment. The author only invites the reader to observe his festering sorrow – to engage, if only vicariously, in his pain … Australia! Not a good place to be homosexual in those days, in an ignorant, brutal, undereducated, homophobic society.’ Caroline See, ‘Tale Details a Lonely Homosexual’s Sad Life’, Los Angeles Times, 26 March, 1990.
Condition: Small tear to upper spine and tanned pages. Over all in good condition.
