1:15 PM – Saturday – Book Club
April 19 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
What: Young Man from the Provinces
By: Alan Helms
Where: Quatrefoil Library
When: April 19th at 1:15 PM
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Book Review:
Young Man from The Provinces
by Alan Helms
Young, intelligent, and handsome, Alan Helms
left a brutal midwestern childhood for New York
City in 1955. Denied a Rhodes scholarship
because of his sexual orientation, he soon
became an object of desire in a gay
underground scene frequented by, among
many others, Noel Coward, Leonard Bernstein,
and Marlene Dietrich. In this unusually vivid
and sensitive account, Helms describes the
business of being a sex object and its
psychological and physical toll.
