Brewsie and Willie

G. Stein

Stein returns to the dialogue style of her earliest published work Three Lives, and records, with evident appreciation, the contours of GI speech. The book not only discusses everything from anxieties over post-war industrialism to renewed hopes for women's rights but also subtly delineates the development of a distinct gay subculture in the homosocial camaraderie fostered by World War II.