The Gay Place
by Billy Lee Brammer
introduction by Don Graham
University of Texas Press, 1995
Paper: 978-0-292-70831-0
Library of Congress Classification PS3552.R282G3 1995
Dewey Decimal Classification 813.54
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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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