The Gay Place (Texas Classics)

The Gay Place (Texas Classics)

<p>Set in Texas, <cite>The Gay Place</cite> 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.</p> <p>Billy Lee Brammer—who served on Lyndon Johnson's staff—gives us here "the excitement of a political carnival: the sideshows, the freaks, and the ghoulish comedy atmosphere" <cite>(Saturday Review).</cite></p><p>Originally published in 1961, <cite>The Gay Place</cite> is at once a cult classic and a major American novel.</p>