The young and evil

Charles Henri Ford, Parker Tyler, Pavel Tchelitchew, Steven Watson

When The Young and Evil was published, it was no other novel of 1933. Its protagonists were frankly homosexual and their Greenwich Village turf was a bohemia where meals were cheap, language was unapologetically modern, and lovers were changed as casually as clothing. This reprint of the 1933 edition contains pen & ink sketches of the authors, as well as seven watercolors by Ford's lover, the interantionally known artist Pavel Tchelitchew, painted especially for Ford's own copy of the novel, and here reproduced for the first time. The fascinating story behind the wrting and publication of this forerunner of so many contemporary novels is told in Steven Watson's introduction - itself an important contribution to the documentation of the literary history of our century. Watson has collected and here reproduced rare photographs of Ford, Tyler and Tchelitchew.