The scorching new novel by the author of Women’s Barracks..’A Peyton Place of Paris’. The Games of Passion…
Genre: Pulp
Subjects: Lesbian Sleaze
Publication History
| Copyright Date | 1961 |
|---|---|
| Publication Date | 1961 |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Format | Hardcover |
| No. of Pages | 159 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | Not Rated |
| Copyright Date | 1962 |
|---|---|
| Publication Date | 1962 |
| Publisher | Dell |
| Format | Mass Market Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 160 |
| Language | English |
| Notes | Dell 6684 |
| Rating | Not Rated |
| Copyright Date | 1965 |
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| Publication Date | 1965 |
| Publisher | Pan Books |
| Format | Mass Market Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 124 |
| Language | English |
| Notes | Pan Book G702 |
| Rating | Not Rated |
Comment
The Only Reason was published by Simon and Schuster in 1961 in a translation from the French by Meyer Levin, Torrès's husband, and reissued by Dell as a paperback in 1962. Barbara Grier rated it A in The Lesbian in Literature. Tereska Torrès (1920 to 2012) is best known for Women's Barracks (1950), widely considered the first lesbian pulp novel, and this later novel shows her returning to relationships between women for an American readership a decade after that book's success.