The Charioteer, Mary Renault. New English Library, 1977.
Vintage paperback. Some creasing to spine and cover. Some wear to corners. No markings inside. Good condition.
"Originally published in the United States in 1959, The Charioteer is a bold, unapologetic portrayal of male homosexuality during World War II that stands with Gore Vidal’s The City and the Pillar and Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin Stories as a monumental work in gay literature." (Goodreads).
Mary Renault was an English writer, known for fostering societal tolerance towards homosexuality in her works; many of which were set in Ancient Greece, . “…these books might qualify Mary Renault, herself a lesbian, as the first gay novelist, as she wrote not a one-off novel about same-sex love but a body of work that kept it front-and-center as a recurring theme.” (The Gay and Lesbian Review, 2022).