Pennsylvania Station : a novel / Patrick E. Horrigan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Amherst, Massachusetts : Lethe Press, 2018.Description: 216 p. : 1 ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781590216361
  • 1590216369
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.6 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3608.O7685 P46 2018
Summary: "Manhattan,1962. Frederick Bailey is a quiet, cultured, closeted architect reluctantly drawn into the effort to save Pennsylvania Station from being demolished. But when he meets Curt, a vibrant, immature gay activist more than half his age, he is overtaken by passions he hasn't felt in years, putting everything he cares about--his friends, his family, his career and reputation--at risk. As the elegant old train station is dismantled piece by piece to make way for the crass new Madison Square Garden sports arena, Frederick must undergo a reckoning he has dreaded all his life. Award-winning author Patrick E. Horrigan delves into the fractured psyches of mid-twentieth-century gay men, conjuring a picture of New York City and the nation on the brink of explosive cultural change"--Provided by publisher.Summary: "A historical novel set in 1960s New York City involving a closeted architect and a young man who becomes involved in the early gay rights movement"--Provided by publisher.
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"Manhattan,1962. Frederick Bailey is a quiet, cultured, closeted architect reluctantly drawn into the effort to save Pennsylvania Station from being demolished. But when he meets Curt, a vibrant, immature gay activist more than half his age, he is overtaken by passions he hasn't felt in years, putting everything he cares about--his friends, his family, his career and reputation--at risk. As the elegant old train station is dismantled piece by piece to make way for the crass new Madison Square Garden sports arena, Frederick must undergo a reckoning he has dreaded all his life. Award-winning author Patrick E. Horrigan delves into the fractured psyches of mid-twentieth-century gay men, conjuring a picture of New York City and the nation on the brink of explosive cultural change"--Provided by publisher.

"A historical novel set in 1960s New York City involving a closeted architect and a young man who becomes involved in the early gay rights movement"--Provided by publisher.

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