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Better Angel
''Better Angel'' is a novel by Forman Brown first published in 1933 under the pseudonym Richard Meeker. It was republished as ''Torment'' in 1951. It is considered one of the first novels to describe a gay lifestyle without condemning it. Christopher Carey called it "the first homosexual novel with a truly happy ending".
The novel's title references Shakespeare's Sonnet 144: "the better angel is a man right fair", a poem which has itself been read as having a homosexual subtext.
==Publication history==
Brown's novel was initially published pseudonymously in 1933 and attracted little critical attention.〔 Universal paperbacks re-published it 1951 under the title ''Torment''. The blurb on the cover read: "Is it evil for one man to lavish affection on another? Torn between the boy who cherished him and the girl who struggled for his love, Kurt Gray could not be sure." The ''Mattachine Review'' described Kurt as "perhaps the healthiest homosexual in print".〔 Alyson Publications published the novel again in 1987 under its original title with an introduction by Hubert Kennedy. Brown was unaware of the 1987 edition, since his copyright had expired and the novel could be printed and sold without his permission. He learned of its appearance from a friend who reported seeing it in a bookstore. He provided an epilogue for the 1990 reprint of the 1987 edition in which he explained that he used a pseudonym decades earlier to protect his writing career at CBS and to shield his parents.〔
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