Landscape with Traveler

The Pillow Book of Francis Reeves

Fiction & Literature, LGBT, Gay, Literary
Cover of the book Landscape with Traveler by Barry Gifford, Seven Stories Press
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Author: Barry Gifford ISBN: 9781609805005
Publisher: Seven Stories Press Publication: October 1, 2013
Imprint: Seven Stories Press Language: English
Author: Barry Gifford
ISBN: 9781609805005
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Publication: October 1, 2013
Imprint: Seven Stories Press
Language: English

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 Traveleris written as the protagonist's diary—inspired by the first century Japanese writer Sei Shōnagon’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.

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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 Traveleris written as the protagonist's diary—inspired by the first century Japanese writer Sei Shōnagon’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.

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