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Pennsylvania Station - by Patrick Horrigan (Paperback)

Pennsylvania Station - by  Patrick Horrigan (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Frederick Bailey is a cultured, closeted architect drawn into the effort to save Pennsylvania Station from being demolished. But when he meets Curt, a vibrant gay activist more than half his age, he is overtaken by passions he hasn't felt in years, putting everything he cares about-his friends, his family, his career and reputation-at risk.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Manhattan,1962. Frederick Bailey is a quiet, cultured, closeted architect reluctantly drawn into the effort to save Pennsylvania Station from being demolished. But when he meets Curt, a vibrant, immature gay activist more than half his age, he is overtaken by passions he hasn't felt in years, putting everything he cares about--his friends, his family, his career and reputation--at risk. As the elegant old train station is dismantled piece by piece to make way for the crass new Madison Square Garden sports arena, Frederick must undergo a reckoning he has dreaded all his life. Award-winning author Patrick E. Horrigan delves into the fractured psyches of mid-twentieth-century gay men, conjuring a picture of New York City and the nation on the brink of explosive cultural change.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Horrigan's novel is convincingly at home in its time period, full of wonderful details and forthright opinions about architecture and art, family dynamics, and the fight over civil rights." - <em>Kirkus Reviews</em></p><p>"Whether it is flirting with a sexy stranger who sits next to you in a Broadway theater, public sex in a dressing room in Rome, or seeking emotional solace in Palladio's La Rotonda, <em>Pennsylvania Station</em>, with its echoes of Henry James and E. M. Forster, amazingly collapses the profound grief of losing the past with the fear of gazing into a new future." - Michael Bronski, author of <em>A Queer History of the United States</em><br /> </p><br>

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