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Landscape with Traveler
(1979)(A book in the Pillow Book of Francis Reeves series)
A novel by Barry Gifford
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 Shnagon'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.
Genre: Literary Fiction
is written as the protagonist's diary - inspired by the first century Japanese writer Sei Shnagon'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.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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