BESTER, ALFRED. _Who He?_ N. Y., Doubleday 1955, pbr Berkley 1956, (m) tct. _The Rat Race_. Tense, tightly plotted novel of split personality. The hero’s housemate is a deeply sublimated homosexual who cracks up when Jake gets a girl; this episode snaps the high pitch of tightrope tension and precipitates the denouement of the novel. Excellent.
BISHOP, LEONARD. _Creep Into thy Narrow Bed._ Dial 1954, pbr Pyramid 1956. Story of a vicious abortion racket; woven into the story is the sympathetically treated story of a young lesbian’s self-realization. Very good of kind.
BODIN, PAUL. _All Woman’s Flesh_ (trans. from the French of Le Voyage Sentimental, by Lowell Bair.) pbo Berkley 1957.
_The Sign of Eros_ (trans. from French) Putnam 1953, pbr Berkley 1955.
Both of these involve a man’s attachment to two women who have some homosexual contact, but the emphasis is heterosexual, rather than lesbian.
BOLTON, ISABEL. “Ruth and Irma”, ss in The New Yorker, Jan 26, 1947; also in Donald Webster Cory’s _21 Variations on a Theme_.
BOTTOME, PHYLLIS. _Jane._ Vanguard, 1957. Story of a street urchin, including lesbian episodes in a girl’s reformatory.
BOURDET, ÉDOUARD. _The Captive._ N. Y., Brentano’s 1926. Drama based on a triangle—man, wife, and a woman who is winning the affections of the latter.
BOURJAILY, VANCE. _The End of My Life._ Scribner’s 1947, pbr Bantam 1952, (m).
_The Violated._ Dial 1958, pbr Bantam 1959, (m).
_The Hound of Earth._ Scribner 1955, pbr Permabooks, 1956, (m). Also includes a minor, and unsympathetic lesbian character.
BOWEN, ELIZABETH. _The Hotel._ N. Y. Dial 1928. A shy young girl sent to catch a husband at a fashionable hotel is, instead, captivated by a sophisticated woman.
BOWLES, JANE. _Two Serious Ladies._ N. Y. Knopf, 1943. The emancipation of an inhibited American housewife.
BOYLE, KAY. “The Bridegroom’s Body” ss in _The Crazy Hunter_, Harcourt 1938, 1940. Also qpb, Beacon Press, 1958, (m).
_Gentlemen, I Address you Privately._ NY, Smith 1933, (m).
_Monday Night._ N. Y. Harcourt 1938, hcr New Directions, n.d. Brief account of a lesbian affair through the eyes of a child.
BRADLEY, MARION Z. “Centaurus Changeling” in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April, 1954. Science Fiction novel; intensely emotional relationship between three wives of alien bureaucrat leads to jealousy and tragedy when the eldest, Cassiana, takes an outsider into their home and makes a favorite of her.