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The Future Was Color - A Novel

Inglese · Tascabile

Pubblicazione il 10.06.2025

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A dazzling novel about the inextricable link between the personal and the political set against the decadence of Hollywood and postwar Los Angeles As a Hungarian immigrant working as a studio hack writing monster movies in 1950s Hollywood, George Curtis must navigate the McCarthy-era studio system filled with possible communists and spies, the life of closeted men along Sunset Boulevard, and the inability of the era to cleave love from persecution and guilt. But when Madeline, a famous actress, offers George a writing residency at her estate in Malibu to work on the political writing he cares most deeply about, his world is blown open. Soon Madeline is carrying George like an ornament into a class of postwar L.A. society ordinarily hidden from men like him. What this lifestyle hides behind, aside from the monsters on the screen, are the monsters dwelling closer to home: this bacchanalia covers a gnawing hole shelled wide by the horror of the war they thought they’d left behind and the glimpse of an atomic future. It’s here that George understands he can never escape his past as György, the queer Jew who fled Budapest before the war and landed in New York, all alone, a decade prior. Spanning from sun-drenched Los Angeles to the hidden corners of working-class New York to a virtuosic climax in the Las Vegas desert,

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PATRICK NATHAN is the author of Image Control and Some Hell, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. His short fiction and essays have appeared in The New Republic, American Short Fiction, Gulf Coast, The Baffler, and elsewhere. He lives in Minneapolis.

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Autori Patrick Nathan
Editore Counterpoint
 
Lingue Inglese
Formato Tascabile
Pubblicazione 10.06.2025
 
EAN 9781640096998
ISBN 978-1-64009-699-8
Pagine 224
Dimensioni 140 mm x 209 mm x 17 mm
Categorie Narrativa > Romanzi

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / City Life, Modern & contemporary fiction, FICTION / LGBTQ+ / Gay, FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / Post-World War II

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