Boston, Mass: Houghton Mifflin Company. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. 0395902436 . First Edition. Black boards with black cloth spine and gold lettering on spine. Burgundy endpapers. Perfect condition with a green remainder mark on front edge. DJ is price clipped with very little wear. Sharp novel about Martin Bauman who aspires to be a writer, it follows his way through the wilderness of New York, and his urgency to get into print and find his way out of the closet. ; Remainder; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 387 pages .

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David Leavitt’s deliciously sharp novel is a multilayered dissection of literary and sexual mores in the get-ahead eighties, when outrageous success lay seductively within reach of any young writer ambitious enough to grab it. Martin Bauman — nineteen, talented, and insecure — is enrolled at a prestigious college and wins a place under the tutelage of the legendary Stanley Flint, a man who makes or breaks careers with the flick of a weary hand. An irresistibly entertaining epic, erotic, honest, and funny, Martin Bauman “draws one character so masterfully that this character will stick in the reader’s mind as strongly as Magwitch or Harry Lime” (Philadelphia Inquirer).

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Bookseller: Bytown Bookery (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 33
Title: Martin Bauman: Or, A Sure Thing
Author: Leavitt David
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine in Very Good dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0395902436
ISBN 13: 9780395902431
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Place of Publication: Boston, Mass
Date Published: 2000
Keywords: 0395902436, Gay, Authorship, New York
Bookseller catalogs: Social Sciences;

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