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Condition: Good Book cover and edges lightly worn and discoloured with age. Short ink inscription on pre-title page, pages browning as normal for book of this age. Spine unbroken and binding tight. Content: "Confiding in us, Edmund White shares his delightful, tough, witty, unsentimental insights and observations, giving us a remarkable city-by-city tour of the scenes and the lives gay men live today. Unquestionably, this is the most revealing book ever published about gay life in America - a book that is entertaining, dismaying and surprising gay and straight readers alike from coast-to-coast." (from the cover) Background / Biography: Edmund White is considered by many to the US' greatest living gay writer. Wikipedia entry Reviews: "Commands attention and respect . . . Mr White can render a city with quick, astonishing strokes. He doesn't so much evoke the people he talks to as he dismantles them down to their cogs and springs." John Leonard, The New York Times "The best gay book of the year." Christopher Street (from the cover) Clicking on advertiser links on this site may allow these companies to gather and use information about your visit to this and other websites to provide you with advertisements about goods and services presumed to be of interest to you. |
Quote from this book "Police raids on bars and adult bookstores are a familar part of Houston gay life. Not long ago the cops raided the Locker and made sure TV cameras were there to publicize the identity of the arrested patrons. There used to be a back room at the Locker where customers had sex on a dark balcony; plainclothesmen infiltrated the crowd and picked up one person after another by whispering 'You're under arrest.' On another occasion the police entered the bar with guns drawn, turned off the jukebox and ordered the customers to put their hands above their heads against the wall. A new mayor and a new police chief seem to be less hostile but gays have no legal assurance against further harassment." p131 Secondhand booksellers |
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