CLIFTON, BUD. _Muscle Boy._ pbo Ace Books, 1958, (m). Teen-age athlete inveigled into posing for dirty pictures. Good evening waster.
COLE, JERRY. _Secrets of a Society Doctor._ Greenberg, 1935. pbr Universal Publishing & Distributing, ca. 1953, (m).
+ COLEMAN, LONNIE. _Ship’s Company._ Little, Brown & Co, 1955, pbr Dell, 1957. Collection of short stories, of which two are homosexual.
_Sam._ David McKay, 1959, pbr Pyramid, 1960, (m). Major, excellent, important. Don’t waste time reading reviews, just go out and buy it.
COLETTE, SIDONIE-GABRIELLE. _Claudine at School._ _Claudine in Paris._ _The Indulgent Husband_ (in The Short Novels of Colette). “Bella Vista” in _The Tender Shoot._ “Gitanette” in _Music Hall Sidelights._
All of these are currently in print in excellent, uniform English translation of the standard “Fleuron” edition of Colette’s complete works, from Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, of recent date. The two “Claudine” novels have had recent Avon pbr editions under the titles of _Diary of a 15 Year Old French Girl_, and _Claudine_.
Much of the work of this important French novelist was variant. Only the most explicit are named above. The first three form a connected narrative, telling of Claudine’s school crushes, her friendship with a male-homosexual cousin, and her “indulgent husband” who connives at her lesbian affair with a woman friend, in order to enjoy it secondhand. “Bella Vista” tells of a vacation spent at a hotel managed by two middle-aged lesbians; the narrator’s fascinated interest in the couple vanishes when one of the “ladies” turns out to be, actually, a disguised man.
CONNOLLY, CYRIL. _The Rock Pool._ Scribner 1936, hcr New Directions n.d. Very well written novel of a group of expatriates in the South of France. Nearly all are homosexuals; the story is told without comment or judgment.
CONSTANTINE, MURRAY, and Margaret Goldsmith. _Venus in Scorpio._ John Lane, 1940. Heavily fictionalized biography, (erroneously listed elsewhere as a novel) of Marie Antoinette, suggesting lesbianism in her adolescence.
+ CORY, DONALD WEBSTER. _21 Variations on a Theme._ N. Y., Greenberg 1953. The classic anthology of short stories about homosexuals; four deal with feminine variance.