I FIRST MET Stanley Flint in the winter of 1980, when I was nineteen.
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Martin Bauman, or, A sure thing
by David Leavitt
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"At the dawn of the Reagan era, Martin Bauman - nineteen, clever, talented, and insecure - is enrolled at a prestigious college with a hard-won place under the tutelage of the legendary and enigmatic Stanley Flint, a man who can make or break careers with the flick of a weary hand. Martin is poised on the brink of the writing life, and his twin desires, equally urgent, are to get into print and find his way out of the closet.".
"As he makes his way through the wilderness of New York - falling in love, going to parties, and coming to terms with the emerging chaos of AIDS - Martin matures from brilliant student, to apprentice in a Manhattan publishing house, to one of the golden few to be anointed by the highly regarded magazine in which it is every young writer's dream to be published.
Yet despite his apparent successes, his emotional and creative desires stubbornly refuse to be satisfied, and his every achievement is haunted by that austere and troubling image of literary perfection, his elusive mentor, Stanley Flint."--BOOK JACKET.
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American Authors, Authors, American, Fiction, Gay men, Social life and customs, Fiction, gay, Teachers, fiction, New york (state), fiction, Gay men, fiction, Conduct of life, Intellectual life, Manners and customs, New York Times reviewed, Young men, Gay youth, Teacher-student relationships, Creative writing, Authorship, Study and teaching, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, lgbtq+, gay, Ferro-Grumley Award for Gay Fiction Finalist| Edition | Availability |
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Martin Bauman: or, a Sure Thing
2001, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
in English
1299885039 9781299885035
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Martin Bauman: Or, a Sure Thing
2001, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
in English
0547995113 9780547995113
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Martin Bauman Hb Book Club
2000, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
in English
0356221466 9780356221465
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