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Martin Bauman; Or, a Sure Thing

Martin Bauman; Or, a Sure Thing Paperback - 2001

by Leavitt, David

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Leavitt's sharp novel is a multilayered dissection of literary and sexual mores in the get-ahead 80s. Talented freshman Martin Bauman, 19, 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.

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  • Title Martin Bauman; Or, a Sure Thing
  • Author Leavitt, David
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 388
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Mariner Books, Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  • Date 2001-10-11
  • Features Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR013432534
  • ISBN 9780618154517 / 0618154515
  • Weight 1.32 lbs (0.60 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.07 x 6.03 x 0.97 in (23.04 x 15.32 x 2.46 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1980's
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Geographic Orientation: New York
    • Sex & Gender: Gay
    • Topical: Lgbt
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00027589
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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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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I FIRST MET Stanley Flint in the winter of 1980, when I was nineteen.