The Book of Lies

Author: Felice Picano
ISBN: 9781555835927

Bright, ambitious, and handsome, Ross Ohrenstedt is a high flier in the fashionable field of queer studies. He has just taken a prestigious university position in Los Angeles and has been appointed to oversee the collection of papers and works of a leading light of the gay literary salon known as the Purple Circle. Ross stumbles across a "lost" work by an unknown author and his quest to identify the mystery writer and achieve the glory of scholastic tenure unveils increasingly bizarre and unbalanced facts about a group of writers who in the 1970s and 1980s broke new ground in the creation of a gay literary sensibility. But the dark truth contained within The Book of Lies is even more startling. With biting wit and a lush sense of place and character, Felice Picano's daring novel is at once a stylish mystery, a comical roman a clef, and a wicked send-up of the new Ivory Tower. "Leave it to Felice Picano to add a walloping dose of melodrama and intrigue to a tale already redrawing genre

Publisher: Alyson Books
Publish Date: 2000-09-01

Subjects: Fiction / General, Fiction / Gay, Social Science / Gay Studies

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