Landscape With Traveler
The Pillow Book of Francis Reeves
$25.18
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
15 November 2013
Summary
In print for the first time in 15 years: the first full-length novel by Gifford, laying bare the themes that have marked his lifelong career: gay issues, a winsome, Beat-inspired frenzy of love, a generation-defining crossroads in American history.Landscape with Traveler: The Pillow Book of Francis Reeves is Barry Gifford’s first full-length novel. In print for the first time in fifteen years, Landscape with Traveler is written as the protagonist’s diary-inspired by the first century Japanese writer Sei Shonagon’s pillow book-and structured as three acclaimed short novels bound into one volume. The book recounts the deep friendship between a middle-aged gay man and a young straight man through vignette-like entries, all the while tracing a history of the US from the 1930s through 1970s.Laying bare the themes that have marked his lifelong career: a winsome, beat-inspired frenzy of love, a generation-defining crossroads in American history-the novel tells an honest story of a male homosexual life.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781609804992 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1609804996 |
| Author: | Barry Gifford |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2013 |
| Weight: | 164g |
| Dimensions: | 127mm x 203mm |
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Critics Review
“Landscape with Traveler is a novel with character. The tone is so light and airy it achieves its own separate sense of time…beautifully refined without sacrificing wit or warmth. It’s a delight.” —The Boston Sunday Globe
“For reminding us so artfully of the difficult simplicities, reminding us of what we already know, [the protagonist] Francis Reeves will become part of our landscape.” —Washington Post Book World
“Landscape with Traveler is a major accomplishment, a small profound novel that will leave the reader utterly affected. Barry Gifford has created a small masterpiece.”
—San Francisco Bay Guardian
Barry Gifford
The author of more than forty works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, which have been translated into over twenty-five languages,BARRY GIFFORDwrites distinctly American stories for readers around the globe. From screenplays and librettos to his acclaimed Sailor and Lula novels, Gifford’s writing is as distinctive as it is difficult to classify. Born in the Seneca Hotel on Chicago’s Near North Side, he relocated in his adolescence to New Orleans. The move proved significant: throughout his career, Gifford’s fiction-part-noir, part-picaresque, always entertaining-is born of the clash between what he has referred to as his “Northern Side” and “Southern Side.” Gifford has been recipient of awards from PEN, the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Library Association, the Writers Guild of America and the Christopher Isherwood Foundation. His novelWild at Heartwas adapted into the 1990 Palme d’Or-winning film of the same name. Gifford lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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