The Gay Place - Hardcover

Billy Lee Brammer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0856341428 ISBN 13: 9780856341427

Publisher: Blond and Briggs, 1983

Synopsis

A three-part novel depicts the machinations, manipulations, and political dealings of Texas governor Arthur Fenstemaker, a character based on Lyndon Johnson

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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.

Review:

"An acute portrait of the capitol city’s politics and social mores, circa the fifties." (Texas Monthly)

"The best novel about American politics in our time." (Willie Morris)

"An American classic in which a Johnsonian figure named Arthur 'Goddam' Fenstemaker strides through the pages, large, earthy, intelligent, threatening, working it seemed more often on the side of the angels than against them." (Gore Vidal)

About this edition

• Publisher: Blond and Briggs
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0856341428
• ISBN 13: 9780856341427
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 554