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The Gay Place (Texas Classics)

The Gay Place (Texas Classics)

by Billy Lee Brammer (Author)

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    Paperback 1995

    $28.57
Synopsis

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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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 560
 Edition: Univ of Texas PR ed.
 Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 01 Mar 1995
ISBN 10: 0292708319
ISBN 13: 9780292708310
Book Overview: The best novel about American politics in our time. -- Willie Morris An American classic in which a Johnsonian figure named Arthur 'Goddam' Fenstemaker strides through the pages, large, earthy, intelligent, threatening, working it seemed more often on the side of the angels than against them. -- Gore Vidal

Media Reviews
An acute portrait of the capitol city's politics and social mores, circa the fifties. * Texas Monthly *
Author Bio
Don Graham is J. Frank Dobie Regents Professor of American and English Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. Graham has written extensively on Southwestern American literature, film, and history.