Place at the Table

Bawer, Bruce

ISBN 10: 0671795333 / ISBN 13: 9780671795337

Published by Simon & Schuster, 1993

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Synopsis:

Resisting the limiting stereotypes of homophobes and the extremism of a highly vocal gay subculture is the task confronting mainstream homosexuals, according to a cultural examination of the complex predicament of the modern gay individual. Tour.

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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Place at the Table
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication Date: 1993
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good