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He began work on a sequel, but never completed it, dying at age forty-eight of a drug overdose. An acute portrait of the capitol city’s politics and social mores, circa the fifties. Search review text. 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.

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Billy Lee Brammer—who served on Lyndon Johnson's staff—gives us here "the excitement of a political the sideshows, the freaks, and the ghoulish comedy atmosphere" Saturday Review. Billy Lee Brammer — was a journalist, political operative, and author born in Dallas, Texas. The Gay Place () is a series of three novellas, with interlocking plots and characters, by American author Billy Lee Brammer. The governor himself, Arthur Fenstemaker, a master politician, infinitely canny and seductive, remains the dominant figure.

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On the cover of the University of Texas Press edition of Billy Lee Brammer’s novel The Gay Place is a blurb by David Halberstam: There are two classic American political novels. “I know a gay place” This book is comprised of three inter-connected novellas, each with its own central character — Texas State Sen. Roy Sherwood in The Flea Circus; Neal Christiansen, the appointed Junior U.S.

Senator from Texas, in Room Enough to Caper; and Jay McGowan, the top aide to Texas Gov. Arthur Fenstemaker and estranged. Originally published in , The Gay Place is at once a cult classic and a major American novel. He then joined the staff of Senator Lyndon B. While working for Johnson, he wrote the three novels that make up The Gay Place. During its Universal Periodic Review cycle, the United States of America (U.S.) received recommendations from Iceland, Belgium, France, and Malta regarding .

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Originally published in , The Gay Place is at once a cult classic and a major American novel. Rate this book. Want to Read. The Gay Place. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. The novellas, published in a single book, include The Flea Circus, Room Enough to Caper and Country Pleasures. Occasionally through the trees, and always from a point of higher ground, one can see the college tower and the Capitol building.

by Billy Lee Brammer A smarmy, boring tome about characters who interact with Governor Arthur Fenstermaker, a machiavellian political character styled after Lyndon Baynes Johnson. He worked as a newspaperman in Corpus Christi and Austin before becoming an editor at the Texas Observer magazine. This report documents the range of abuses against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students in secondary school.

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