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| Martin Bauman; or, A Sure Thing |
Nominated ISBN: 0395902436 |
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| David Leavitt | ||
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| New York Public Library, New York, U.S.A |
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ABOUT THE
BOOK
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Martin
Bauman is a multi-layered dissection of literary and sexual mores
in the get-ahead eighties, when outrageous success lay seductively within
reach of any young writer ambitious enough to grab it.
At the dawn of the Reagan era, Martin Bauman, nineteen, clever, talented 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 careers with the flick of a weary hand. Martin is poised on the brink of the writing life, and his twin desires, equally urgent, are to get into print and find his way out of the closet. As he makes his way through the wilderness of New York, falling in love, going to parties, and coming to terms with the emerging chaos of AIDS, Martin matures from brilliant student, to apprentice in a Manhattan publishing house, to one of the golden few to be anointed by the highly regarded magazine in which it is every young writer's dream to be published. Yet despite his apparent success, his emotional and creative desires stubbornly refuse to be satisfied, and his every achievement is haunted by that austere and troubling image of literary perfection, his elusive mentor, Stanley Flint. Erotic, honest and funny, Martin Bauman lays bare the life of the artist in all his venal, envious, poignant glory. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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David
Leavitt's
first collection of stories, Family Dancing, published when
he was just twenty-three, was a finalist for both the National Book Critics
Circle Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. The Lost Language of Cranes
was made into a BBC film, and While England Sleeps was shortlisted
for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Leavitt is also the author of Equal
Affections, A Place I've Never Been, Arkansas,
and The Page Turner. With Mark Mitchell, he coedited The
Penguin Book of Short Stories and Pages Passed from Hand
to Hand and cowrote Italian Pleasures. He is a recipient
of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National
Endowment for the Arts.
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