Patrick E. Horrigan

American Scholar -- Patrick E. Horrigan, Paperback

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James Fitzgerald likes his life the way it is. He has a stable academic career teaching American literature; a comfortable townhouse in Brooklyn; a satisfying, open marriage with his partner of fifteen years; a sweet and playful young boyfriend; and a recently-published, well-received novel about a famous early-twentieth-century Harvard professor. But his poise is shattered when a woman appears at a book signing bearing a surprise gift: an unsent letter from her brother Gregory, James' first boyfriend and-ever since Gregory's sudden death twenty-five years ago-the dark gravitational center of James' intellectual and emotional life. What follows is a near hallucinatory night of soul-questioning as James, wandering the streets of New York, re-examines his stormy, life-altering relationship with Gregory, a charismatic, self-destructive activist and writer and the real impetus behind James' new novel.


Rapidly shifting between the late 1980s, when AIDS cut a deadly swath through the gay community, and the dawn of the Trump era where social media and political polarization threaten another kind of death sentence, American Scholar tells the story of a man driven to discover but afraid to know the truth about himself and his loves past and present.



Author: Patrick E. Horrigan
Publisher: Lethe Press
Published: 03/13/2023
Pages: 250
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9781590217368

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2023

Product Tags:

Fiction, Fiction - General, Gay, Lethe Press, LGBTQ+, Literary, Multiple Timelines, Paperback, Patrick E. Horrigan, United States

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