Martin Bauman: Or A Sure Thing by Leavitt, David - 2000

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000. BU4 - A hard cover first American edition book in very good condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in black paper covered boards quarter bound in black cloth with gold lettering and a graphic on the spine with minor overall shelf wear. The dust jacket is in very good condition with minor overall shelf wear plus some very light edge wear along the top edges. A novel that is a multilayered dissection of literary and sexual mores in the 1980s. The main character us a young talended college student who wants both to find success by getting into print and to find a way to come out of the closet. He fakes his way into the New York literary scene while also dealing with love and the chaos of AIDS. The author has been a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, has been shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and is a recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. By the author of "Family Dancing," "The Lost Language of Cranes," "While England Sleeps," "Equal Affections," "A Place I've Never Been," "Arkansas," and "The Page Turner." 387p.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.