Belchamber

Charles Edwin William Augustus Chambers — Marquis and Earl of Belchamber, Viscount Charmington, and Baron St. Edmunds and Chambers — known familiarly as Sainty, is the scion of an ancient English aristocratic family. Behind him stretches a rogues’ gallery of picturesque upper-crust scoundrels. But he is uninterested in riding to hounds or drinking or whoring in the great tradition of his forebears, and though he admires his tough-minded puritanical Scottish mother, he lacks her unrelenting moral self-assurance. Sainty is a sensitive soul, sexually timid, intellectually inclined and utterly honest, but incapable of asserting himself. When it comes to the business of marrying and continuing the family line, Sainty hasn’t a prayer.

• Author
• Howard Sturgis, Edmund White, E.M. Forster

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 345

• Publisher
• NYRB Classics

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781590172667

• Characters
• Sainty Chambers, Arthur Chambers, Lady Charmington, Gerald Newby, Cissy Eccleston

• Settings
• England

• Genres
• fiction, classics, queer, lgbt

• Release date
• 2008