James Baldwin and Britain

Baldwin referenced in a review of Laura Z Hobson's Consenting Adult

Source: Gay News

Peter Burton review of ‘Consenting Adult’ by Laura Z Hobson, August 28-September 11, 1975. p.19.

Burton opens the review by stating: ‘Novels which deal directly with homosexuality, and which are honest and true pieces of writing, are few and far between’. Mentions JB’s work in in relation to ‘a vast number of books by major writers which examine homosexuality as part of the plot of the whole novel’.