Cover Details
New York: Beacon Books, c1962.
FRONT COVER
STRANGE EMBRACE
BEN CHRISTOPHER
What unholy bonds held two beautiful actresses in a drama that had no part for male actors?
BEACON B487F. 50˘
NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED! A BRILLIANT NOVEL ABOUT THE LOVE SOCIETY RECOGNIZES BUT CANNOT FORGIVE!
BACK COVER
THIRD STAGE LOVE?
Tall, personable John Lane was sure of success when he started rehearsing his new play for Broadway production. A Touch Of Squalor was good drama, the male lead was experienced, the director was a craftsman, if temperamental – and blonde, blue-eyed Elaine James and well-curved, brunette Jan Vernon seemed just the kinds of female leads to attract audiences. BUT that was before Lane was forced by wild displays of passion to suspect the two women of acting out stranger roles in life than those on stage – roles of the sex-starved and lust-ravaged women who live at odds with society’s accepted standards of love! …AND WITH THAT BEGAN ONE OF THE ALL-TOO- RARE REVELATIONS OF THE CONFLICTS ENGENDERED BY PERSONS AT ONCE FASCINATING AND REPELLING IN THEIR MORAL DEVIATIONS.