Research Catalog

Title

Torment / by Richard Meeker.

Author

Meeker, Richard.

Publication

Toronto : Universal Pub. and Distributing Corp., c1933.

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Details

Additional Authors

Brown, Forman, 1901-1996.

Description

159, [1] p.; 19 cm.

Summary

Torment is a coming-out novel in which the protagonist, Kurt Gray, has a homosexual relationship with his college friend Derry Grayling. Grayling soon loses interest in Gray and passes him to another friend, David Perrier. Gray then makes a desperate attempt to alter his sexuality by having an affair with Grayling's sister, Chloe. He eventually becomes a successful avant-garde composer in New York, where he finds happiness with Perrier.

Series Statement

Uni-book ; 13

Uniform Title

Uni-book ; 13.

Subjects

• Printed wrappers
• Paperbacks
• Homosexuality > Fiction
• Young gay men > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Paperbacks.
• Printed wrappers.

Note

• "Printed in Canada."
• "Is it evil for one man to lavish affection on another? Torn between the boy who cherished him and the girl who struggled for his love, Kurt Gray could not be sure."--From front wrapper.
• "Kurt loved this woman ... Did he love her brother more?"--From front wrapper.
• "Chloe, the girl who loved him despite everything, believed that if only she could make him desire her, this would cure him. Deliberately she set out to entice him from abnormality."--From back wrapper.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Biography (note)

• Richard Meeker is the pseudonym of Forman Brown, the author of the coming-out novel Better Angel. Michigan-born Brown and his life partner, Richard Brandon, were master puppeteers who assumed direction of the Yale Puppeteers in 1929. The troupe eventually moved to the Turnabout Theater in Los Angeles, where Brown died at age 95.

Binding (note)

• Issued in color-printed paper wrappers showing bare-legged, young, red haired woman in blue evening gown and elbow-length gloves, sitting on divan, with her extended hand on the shoulder of a man in a gray suit leaving the room.

Call Number

Berg Coll Brown, F T67 1933

OCLC

225688196

Author

Meeker, Richard.

Title

Torment / by Richard Meeker.

Imprint

Toronto : Universal Pub. and Distributing Corp., c1933.

Series

Uni-book ; 13

Uni-book ; 13.

Access

Restricted access; request permission from holding division.

Biography

Richard Meeker is the pseudonym of Forman Brown, the author of the coming-out novel Better Angel. Michigan-born Brown and his life partner, Richard Brandon, were master puppeteers who assumed direction of the Yale Puppeteers in 1929. The troupe eventually moved to the Turnabout Theater in Los Angeles, where Brown died at age 95.

Binding

Issued in color-printed paper wrappers showing bare-legged, young, red haired woman in blue evening gown and elbow-length gloves, sitting on divan, with her extended hand on the shoulder of a man in a gray suit leaving the room.

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Added Author

Brown, Forman, 1901-1996.

Research Call Number

Berg Coll Brown, F T67 1933