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Leaving the Gay Place: Billy Lee Brammer and the Great Society

Leaving the Gay Place: Billy Lee Brammer and the Great Society

Daugherty, Tracy

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ISBN10: 1477320784
ISBN13: 9781477320785
Publisher: Univ Of Texas Pr
Published: Feb 4 2020
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

Acclaimed by critics as a second F. Scott Fitzgerald, Billy Lee Brammer was once one of the most engaging young novelists in America. Brammer's is a new and major talent, big in scope, big in its promise of even better things to come, wrote A. C. Spectorsky, a former staffer at the New Yorker. When he published his first and only novel, The Gay Place, in 1961, literary luminaries such as David Halberstam, Willie Morris, and Gore Vidal hailed his debut. Morris deemed it the best novel about American politics in our time. Halberstam called it a classic . . . [a] stunning, original, intensely human novel inspired by Lyndon Johnson. . . . It will be read a hundred years from now. More recently, James Fallows, Gary Fisketjon, and Christopher Lehmann have affirmed The Gay Place's continuing relevance, with Lehmann asserting that it is the one truly great modern American political novel.

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