The God in Flight - Hardcover

Argiri, Laura

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679428313 ISBN 13: 9780679428312

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1995

Synopsis

The illicit and passionate love affair between a professor and his male student journeys from the colorful backdrop of Yale University during the 1880s, to rural West Virginia, to the haunts of the jaded British aristocracy. A first novel. 25,000 first printing. Tour.

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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: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0679428313
• ISBN 13: 9780679428312
• Binding: Hardcover