Bertram Cope's Year

By Henry Blake Fuller

Fiction : Gay

Turtle Point Press
Publication date: March 2012

ISBN: 9781933527758

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"Fuller's beautifully balanced irony on the subject closest to his heart is a triumph." --Andrew Solomon, from the Afterword In 1919, when he was sixty-two, Henry Blake Fuller published BERTRAM COPE'S YEAR. The audacious book with several homosexual characters revolves aroud a young English instructor in a middle-western university town patterned on Evaston, Illinois. Rejected by every New York publisher, Fuller self-published and the book recieved scant notice or unintelligent reviews. Discouraged, Fuller bruned the original manuscript. It took ten years before he ventured to publish another novel. James Huneker, Fuller's contemporary, loved BERTRAM COPE's YEAR. He read it three times and wrote to Fuller, "Its portraiture and psychological strokes full me with envy and joy... you are the implacable Stendhal of the lake!" Fifty years later, critic Edmund Wilson, in a NEW YORKER article on Henry Blake Fuller entitled "The Art of Making It Flat," called BERTRAM COPE's YEAR Fuller's best book. He wrote, "It has a philosophic theme... which raises it well above the fiction of social surfaces of the school of William Dean Howells." This Turtle Point Press edition is the first republication of BERTRAM COPE's YEAR since 1919.