A Place at the Table: Gay Individual in American Society - Hardcover

Bawer, Bruce

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671795333 ISBN 13: 9780671795337

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 1993

Synopsis

Homosexuality is being talked about more today than at any other time in human history; the issue of gay rights has reached a moment of truth. Now comes a gay writer's powerful meditation on the nature of homosexuality and the need to resist confining stereotypes.

About this title

About the Author:

A native New Yorker who has lived in Norway since 1999, Bruce Bawer has written several influential books on a range of issues. A Place at the Table: The Gay Individual in American Society (1993) was named by columnist Dale Carpenter as the most important non-fiction book about homosexuality published in the 1990s; Publishers Weekly called Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity (1997) a must-read book for anyone concerned with the relationship of Christianity to contemporary American culture; While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West from Within (2006) was a New York Times bestseller and a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; and Surrender: Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom (2009) was hailed by Booklist as immensely important and urgent." He has also published several collections of literary and film criticism, including Diminishing Fictions and The Aspect of Eternity, and a collection of poetry, Coast to Coast, which was selected by the Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook as the best first book of poems published in 1993. He is a frequent contributor to such publications as The Hudson Review, City Journal, The American Scholar, Wilson Quarterly, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, and has reviewed books regularly for the New York Times Book Review, Washington Post Book World, and Wall Street Journal.

Synopsis:

Argues that irrational fear and hatred of homosexuals has clouded the issue of gay rights, and suggests that gays, for the most part, share the common values of all Americans.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0671795333
• ISBN 13: 9780671795337
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 256