Bertram Cope's Year, a Novel | 
pickMy full video review is on my BookTube channel: https://youtu.be/mOAnJW6KcZk.
This 1919 American novel by the now-forgotten Chicagoan writer Henry Blake Fuller portrays gay male life so subtly that few of its contemporary readers and reviewers had the foggiest what it was all about. They weren't outraged, just confused as all get-out. Fuller was so put-out he withdrew the novel and died a decade later.
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shawnmooney Now viewed as a classic of queer lit, the novel is set in a university town where a new hot young teacher, the titular Bertram, comes to town and turns heads—the heads of men and women alike. His boyfriend follows him there a few months later and—just like the novel's early readers—the straight characters don't know what to make of Bertram and his touchy-feely 'roommate'. Comical... 3y
shawnmooney misunderstandings, and awkward conversations and plot developments—revealing the social dynamics between different generations of gay men and between them and straight folk—make this an entertaining, deeply fascinating read. Unless it all goes right over your head, that is. 3y
LeahBergen Sounds fab! 👍 3y
