Ebook {Epub PDF} The Gay Place: Being Three Related Novels by Billy Lee Brammer

Billy Lee Brammer. University of Texas Press, - Fiction- pages. 1Review. Set in Texas, The Gay Place consists of three interlocking novels, each with a different protagonist—a member of 5/5(1). Gay Place, Being Three Related Novels: The Flea Circus, Room Enough to Caper, Country Pleasures. Reprint of the Ed Hardcover – July 1, by/5(4).  · The Gay Place is 3 related novels about Texas politics. The protagonists are a state legislator, a U. S. senator, and a staffer, aide to the governor. That governor, Arthur Fenstemaker, dominates all 3 novels as a God-like and Satan-like presence, sometimes both at the same time. He's the fuel propelling the narrative progression of the plots.4/5.

The Gay Place; Being Three Related Novels (contains The Flea Circus, Room Enough to Caper, and Country Pleasures), Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), SIDELIGHTS: William Brammer's book The Gay Place is a collection of three short novels inspired by Brammer's tenure in the s as a senatorial aide and speechwriter for U.S. politician Lyndon. Since its publication, Billy Lee Brammer's book inspired by Lyndon B. Johnson has gained a cult following. It has been praised by the New York Times, Gore Vidal, and Larry King, and has been ranked alongside All the King's Men as one of the great American political novels. "The best novel about American politics in our time." —Willie Morris\nSet deep in the heart of Texas, The Gay Place consists of three interlocking novels—The Flea Circus, Room Enough to Caper, and Country Pleasures—each with a different protagonist. Unifying the stories is Texas governor Arthur Fenstemaker, a canny master politician modeled on Lyndon Johnson, for whom the author.

Set in Texas, The Gay Place consists of three interlocking novels, each with a different protagonist—a member of the state legislature, the state's junior senator, and the governor's press secretary. The governor himself, Arthur Fenstemaker, a master politician, infinitely canny and seductive, remains the dominant figure throughout. Gay Place, Being Three Related Novels: The Flea Circus, Room Enough to Caper, Country Pleasures. Reprint of the Ed by Billy Lee Brammer () Hardcover – January 1, Gay Place, Being Three Related Novels: The Flea Circus, Room Enough to Caper, Country Pleasures. Reprint of the Ed by Billy Lee Brammer ().