The God in Flight - Softcover

Argiri, Laura

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140254137 ISBN 13: 9780140254136

Publisher: Penguin, 1996

Synopsis

In 1878, while attending Yale University and trying to escape his father's abusiveness, Simion Satterwhite meets art professor Doriskos Klionarios, and they begin a tumultuous love affair scorned by their society. Reprint.

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Review:

"...Argiri provides an enchanting menagerie of bullies and villains, friends and mentors. And her pair of lovers are as memorable as Mary Renault's Alexander and Bagoas. Many readers should be delighted by this haunting blend of melodrama and fancy." - Publishers Weekly, starred review "...Argiri understands the way intellectual gay men in the late 19th Century thought and felt." - David Leavitt for the Los Angeles Times "Art professor Doriskos Klionarios looks and sculpts like a Greek god. His teenage student, Simion Satterwhite, has a faunlike beauty and a genius for math. Their true love triumphs over child abuse, anorexia, homophobia, censorship, and the violence of bigots...this lush, effusive work [has] some satiric bite." - Entertainment Weekly "If a novel's worth can be measured by the power and verity of the emotions it instills in the reader, then Argiri's approaches the divine. It transforms and moves the spirit as modern fiction should and so seldom does, describing a love story with such true emotion the heart aches reading it." - Booklist

Synopsis:

Laura Argiri''s debut novel concerns the love between 2 men at Yale University in the late 1800s and thei r success in conducting a gay relationship in the face of th e social bigotry and human jealousy that surrounds them. '

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0140254137
• ISBN 13: 9780140254136
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496