Description
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.
"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
About the Author
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.
Reviews
An acute portrait of the capitol city's politics and social mores, circa the fifties. * Texas Monthly *
Book Information
ISBN 9780292708310
Author Billy Lee Brammer
Format Paperback
Page Count 560
Imprint University of Texas Press
Publisher University of Texas Press
Weight(grams) 626g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 30mm
