Set in Texas, The Gay Place consists of three interlocking novels, each with a different protagonist-a member of the state legislature, the state's junior senator, and the governor's press secretary. The governor himself, Arthur Fenstemaker, a master politician, infinitely canny and seductive, remains the dominant figure throughout.
Billy Lee Brammer-who served on Lyndon Johnson's staff-gives us here "the excitement of a political carnival: the sideshows, the freaks, and the ghoulish comedy atmosphere" (Saturday Review).
Originally published in 1961, The Gay Place is at once a cult classic and a major American novel.
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An acute portrait of the capitol city's politics and social mores, circa the fifties. (Texas Monthly)
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Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 140 mm
Dicke: 33 mm
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978-0-292-70831-0 (9780292708310)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Billy Lee Brammer (1929-1978) was a journalist and political staffer.
Introduction
The Flea Circus
Room Enough to Caper
Country Pleasures
