A review by catdad77a45
Imre: A Memorandum by Edward Prime-Stevenson, James J. Gifford

3.0

This very slim book's (the novella proper is under 100 pages - the rest of this volume is supplementary material) notoriety comes from being perhaps the first American gay story (from 1906) with a 'happy' ending. But unlike its near contemporary, Forster's Maurice, it lacks more than rudimentary literary/narrative value. Prime-Stevenson also composed a 600 page apologia on what he calls 'simulasexuality', and much of the novel is didactic cribbing from that, which makes for very sluggish reading.