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The Golden Gate : a novel in verse / by Vikram Seth.
Van Pelt Library PS3569.E76 G65 1986
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LIBRA PS3569.E76 G65 1986
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seth, Vikram, 1952- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yuppies.
- San Francisco (Calif.)--Fiction.
- San Francisco (Calif.).
- City and town life--Fiction.
- City and town life.
- Yuppies--Fiction.
- San Francisco (Calif.) setting.
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Novels in verse. lcsh.
- California--San Francisco.
- Local Subjects:
- San Francisco (Calif.)--Fiction.
- City and town life--Fiction.
- Yuppies--Fiction.
- Novels in verse. lcsh.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels in verse.
- Narrative poetry.
- Poems -- United States -- 20th century.
- Authors' presentation copies (Provenance)
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 307 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, [1986]
- Summary:
- This novel, written in sonnet form is publishing phenomenon of 1986 review in the New York Times and India Today. This is the story of a group of young people within the reach of the Golden Gate Bridge in the 1980s. The protagonist John, a successful computer executive in Silicon Valley, is lonely; his loyal ex-girlfriend Janet is a sculptor and drummer in the band Liquid Sheep; Liz is an attorney from a family of wine growers whom John meets as a result of an ad placed on his behalf by Janet; Liz's brother Ed is a homosexual grappling with Catholicism. Other characters include: Phil, a former nuclear engineer; Liz's cat Charlemagne; and an iguana named Schwartzenegger. Though it portrays contemporary life in California, the novel is about the universal pursuit of love. The author, a New Delhi raised doctoral candidate in economics at Stanford, has won the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for 1986. ISBN 0-394-54974-0 : $17.95.
- Contents:
- The world's discussed while friends are eating.
- A cache of billets-doux arrive.
- A concert generates a meeting.
- A house is warmed. Sheep come alive.
- Olives are plucked in prime condition.
- A cat reacts to competition.
- Arrests occur. A speech is made.
- Coffee is drunk, and Scrabble played.
- A quarrel is initiated.
- Vines rest in early winter light.
- The Winking Owl fills up by night.
- An old affair is renovated.
- Friends meditate on friends who've gone. The months go by; the world goes on.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Seth, Vikram, 1952- Golden Gate.
- ISBN:
- 0394549740
- 9780394549743
- 0679734570
- 9780679734574
- OCLC:
- 12081140
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