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

Bawer, Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671894390 ISBN 13: 9780671894399

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1994

Synopsis

Bruce Bawer exposes the heated controversy over gay rights and presents a passionate plea for the recognition of common values, "a place at the table" for everyone.

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:

In an examination of the gay culture, Bawer exposes the fallacies of current public debate and presents a passionate plea for the recognition of common values - "a place at the table" for everyone.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0671894390
• ISBN 13: 9780671894399
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272