Hemlock and After
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(publ. Secker & Warburg)
Cover art by Ronald Searle
Hemlock and After is a 1952 novel by British writer Angus Wilson; it was his first published novel after a series of short stories. The novel offers a candid portrayal of gay life in post-World War II England.
Plot introduction
Bernard Sands, a prominent writer who has been given financial aid to start a writer's colony at Vardon Hall, faces a failing marriage, attempts to come to grips with his homosexuality and lives next door to a procuress for paedophiles.
Characters in Hemlock and After
- Bernard Sands, the protagonist; a homosexual
- Ella, Bernard's wife
- Elizabeth, the Sandses' daughter
- James, the Sandses' son
- Charles, a friend of Bernard; a senior civil servant
- Mrs Curry, the Sands's neighbour; a procuress for pedophiles
- Hubert Rose, an architect and a pedophile
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References to other works
- Angus Wilson said in an interview that the ending of the novel was Dickensian.[1]
Trivia
The novel was written in only four weeks.[1]
References
- ^ a b Michael Millgate, "Angus Wilson, The Art of Fiction No. 20", The Paris Review, Autumn-Winter 1957, No. 17.
External links
- Review from Time Magazine, 29 September 1952.
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