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Tom Spanbauer
Author
Publisher
Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
466 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Set against a world of struggling artists, the underground sex scene of New York in the 1980s, the drab, confining Idaho of Ben's youth, and many places in between [this novel is] a rich, expansive tale of love, sex, and heartbreak, covering twenty-five years in the life of a striving, emotionally wounded writer. In New York, Ben forms a bond of love with his macho friend and foil, Hank. Years later in Portland, a now ill Ben falls for Ruth, who provides...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
504 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tom Spanbauer is one of the most enchanting writers in America today, and In the City of Shy Hunters, his first novel in ten years, is a portrait of New York in the 1980s. Shy, afflicted with a stutter, and struggling with his sexuality, Will Parker comes to New York to escape the provincial western towns where he grew up. In New York, he finds himself surrounded for the first time by people who understand and celebrate his quirks and flaws. He also...
