Leaving the Gay Place: Billy Lee Brammer and the Great Society

by Tracy Daugherty

Book Overview

Acclaimed by critics as a second F. Scott Fitzgerald, Billy Lee Brammer was once one of the most engaging young novelists in America. "Brammer's is a new and major talent, big in scope, big in its promise of even better things to come," wrote A. C. Spectorsky, a former staffer at the New Yorker. When he published his first and only novel, The Gay Place, in 1961, literary luminaries such as David Halberstam, Willie Morris, and Gore Vidal hailed his...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477316353
• ISBN13: 9781477316351
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"