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The Gay Place
Paperback
Series: Texas Classics
ISBN13: 9780292708310
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: Mar 1 1995
Pages: 560
Weight: 1.34
Height: 1.18 Width: 5.33 Depth: 8.19
Language: English
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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