Landscape with Traveler - The Pillow Book of Francis Reeves

Zusatztext " Landscape with Traveler is a novel with character. The tone is so light and airy it achieves its own separate sense of time...beautifully refined without sacrificing wit or warmth. It's a delight." — The Boston Sunday Globe "For reminding us so artfully of the difficult simplicities! reminding us of what we already know! [the protagonist] Francis Reeves will become part of our landscape."  — Washington Post Book World "Landscape with Traveler is a major accomplishment! a small profound novel that will leave the reader utterly affected. Barry Gifford has created a small masterpiece." — San Francisco Bay Guardian Informationen zum Autor The author of more than forty works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, which have been translated into over twenty-five languages,  BARRY GIFFORD  writes distinctly American stories for readers around the globe. From screenplays and librettos to his acclaimed Sailor and Lula novels, Gifford’s writing is as distinctive as it is difficult to classify. Born in the Seneca Hotel on Chicago’s Near North Side, he relocated in his adolescence to New Orleans. The move proved significant: throughout his career, Gifford’s fiction—part-noir, part-picaresque, always entertaining—is born of the clash between what he has referred to as his “Northern Side” and “Southern Side.” Gifford has been recipient of awards from PEN, the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Library Association, the Writers Guild of America and the Christopher Isherwood Foundation. His novel  Wild at Heart  was adapted into the 1990 Palme d’Or-winning film of the same name. Gifford lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Klappentext Landscape with Traveler: The Pillow Book of Francis Reeves is Barry Gifford's first full-length novel. In print for the first time in fifteen years, Landscape with Traveler is written as the protagonist's diary-inspired by the first century Japanese writer Sei Shonagon's pillow book-and structured as three acclaimed short novels bound into one volume. The book recounts the deep friendship between a middle-aged gay man and a young straight man through vignette-like entries, all the while tracing a history of the US from the 1930s through 1970s. Laying bare the themes that have marked his lifelong career: a winsome, beat-inspired frenzy of love, a generation-defining crossroads in American history-the novel tells an honest story of a male homosexual life. 1. i don’t know that this will be of very great interest I don’t know that this will be of very great interest to anyone, but it seems such a perfect place to begin. I’m on a bouncing bus going back to New York after a weekend on Fire Island, which was quite pleasant in spite of my misgivings beforehand. The bus service is the best thing that’s happened in years for going to F.I. It picks you up at various convenient places around New York, gives you a free drink—fifty cents each for seconds and thirds—and a package of toasted almonds, and takes you right to the ferry. Plus they allow dogs (sans carriers). Before, I had to cab it to the station, take a train (with dog in carrier), then another cab to the ferry—and usually had to stand all the way on the train—all of which usually cost well over the bus price besides being a rather unpleasant trip being bustled about by Long Island commuters, feisty conductors, hot trains (the buses are air conditioned), etc., ad infinitum. But then some enterprising fellow got the idea of chartering buses, and the Bus-A-Long was born. At first, so I’m told, it was strictly a gay affair, with orgies all the way back to New York in the back part of the bus. Dick Cornelia swears that the first time he took the bus a giggling voice was heard to say, “Don’t come in the air conditioner, M...

Product details

• Authors: Barry Gifford
• Publisher: Seven stories press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2013
• EAN: 9781609804992
• ISBN: 978-1-60980-499-2
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 201 mm x 11 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature