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The Gay Place,
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This review is from: Gay Place, Being Three Related Novels: The Flea Circus, Room Enough to Caper, Country Pleasures. Reprint of the 1961 Ed (Hardcover)
I thoroughly enjoyed the book and can see why it holds such an esteemed place in Texas letters, even though Texas is not mentioned once. Very Fitzgeraldian, only apropo as FSF was Billy Lee Brammer's favorite novelist. The book is all about its characters but i think what fascinates me most is the time period in which it takes place, the late 1950's, a time that was a-changing, when idealistic young political liberals were experimenting with new ideas, including beatnik/bohemian mores creeping in from underground. Mix in a dash of existential stream of consciousness and a dollop of psychoanalytic gobbledegook and it makes for quite a creative recipe. I was unsure about the form of the book, consisting as it does of three novellas, but in this case it works. The intro by William Broyles helps explain things, ergo i won't go into them here. I think i am more fascinated by the writer than the actual book. Reading it, I kept wondering if Brammer had read On The Road, which would have come out when he was writing this. I'm assuming he did. I would like to know more about Billy Brammer, a rising literary star of his time who never finished another book, then died early at age 48. Whatever happened to ya, Billy...ya coulda benna contenda.
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