Cast in Doubt
Lynne Tillman
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Description for Cast in Doubt
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 5SG; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 385.
While the tumultuous 1970s rock the world around them, a collection of aging expatriates linger in a quiet town on the island of Crete, where they have escaped their pasts and their present. Among them is Horace, a gay American writer who fears he has finally reached old age. Friends only frustrate him, and his youthful Greek lover provides little satisfaction. Idling his time away with alcohol and working on a novel that he will never finish, Horace feels closer than ever to his own sorry end. That is, until a young, enigmatic American woman named Helen joins his ... Read more
While the tumultuous 1970s rock the world around them, a collection of aging expatriates linger in a quiet town on the island of Crete, where they have escaped their pasts and their present. Among them is Horace, a gay American writer who fears he has finally reached old age. Friends only frustrate him, and his youthful Greek lover provides little satisfaction. Idling his time away with alcohol and working on a novel that he will never finish, Horace feels closer than ever to his own sorry end. That is, until a young, enigmatic American woman named Helen joins his ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Red Lemonade United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781935869207
SKU
V9781935869207
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About Lynne Tillman
Lynne Tillman (New York, NY) is the author of five novels, three collections of short stories, one collection of essays and two other nonfiction books. She collaborates often with artists and writes regularly on culture, and her fiction is anthologized widely. Her last collection of short stories, This Is Not It, included 23 stories based on the work of ... Read more
Reviews for Cast in Doubt
"Clever, witty, passionately written... Lynne Tillman writes with such elan, such spirited delight and comic intelligence that it is difficult to take anything but pleasure..."
Douglas Glover, Washington Post Book World "With Cast in Doubt, Lynne Tillman achieves several different kinds of miracles. She moves into the skin of a sixtyish male homosexual novelist so effortlessly that the reader ... Read more
Douglas Glover, Washington Post Book World "With Cast in Doubt, Lynne Tillman achieves several different kinds of miracles. She moves into the skin of a sixtyish male homosexual novelist so effortlessly that the reader ... Read more