Martin Bauman - Brossura

Leavitt, David

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0349114633 ISBN 13: 9780349114637

Casa editrice: Abacus, 2001

Riassunto

At the dawn of the Reagan era Martin Bauman, nineteen, clever, ambitious and insecure, is enrolled at a prestigious college with a hard-won place under the tutelage of the legendary and enigmatic Stanley Flint, a man who can make or break writing careers with the flick of a weary hand. Martin is poised on the threshold of the writing life, his twin desires to get into print and to find his way out of the closet. Moving through the century's most licentious decade - the decade of cocaine, wild parties, huge advances and the tragic comedown of AIDS - Martin matures from brilliant student to apprentice in a Manhattan publishing house to fully fledged member of the New York literary brat pack. Yet despite his apparent success, his emotional and creative desires refuse, stubbornly, to be satisfied and his every achievement is haunted by the austere and troubling image of literary perfection, his elusive mentor, Stanley Flint. Subtle, erotic, honest and funny, David Leavitt's deliciously sharp, multi-layered dissection of literary and sexual mores lays bare the life of the artist, in all his venal, envious, self-loathing, poignant glory.

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Recensione:

Wonderful (NEW STATESMAN)

A sharp satire on New York literary life ... Leavitt's portrait of the literary world is wickedly apt ... an engaging novel (INDEPENDENT)

Fascinating. (GAY TIMES)

This is the author's best work, and it's told with Leavitt's trademark eloquence: rich, bulls-eye targeted and gently dazzling. (TIME OUT)

Descrizione del libro:

* An epic - yet fiercely personal - novel about Love, Literature and Lying from one of our most sophisticated and entertaining storytellers

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• Editore: Abacus
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0349114633
• ISBN 13: 9780349114637
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 480