Word: forsters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FORSTER 240 pages. Norton...
...should have been a more famous writer if I had written or rather published more," E.M. Forster commented in his diary in 1964, "but sex has prevented the latter." During his 46-year silence as a fiction writer after the 1924 A Passage to India-one of the most tantalizing silences in modern literature-the theme that continued to fire his imagination was the unpublishable one of homosexuality...
...Just as Forster had difficulty accepting his own homosexuality, he never seemed sure of the value of his "indecent" stories. Periodically he destroyed batches of them, not in "moral repentance" but out of "a craftsman's dissatisfaction...
...purges. They deal with such things as the seduction of a provincial couple by two sailors, a brief homosexual idyl between a middle-aged businessman and a milkman, and an East-meets-West shipboard disaster involving a half-caste and a British officer that ends in murder and suicide. Forster being Forster, these goings on are handled better than anyone could hope...
...streaking Chicago White Sox edged the Red Sox yesterday, 1-0. Chicago pitchers Eddie Fisher and Terry Forster combined for a three-hitter, with Marty Pattin taking the loss for the Bosox...