Better Angels

Name: Better Angels
Brand: Wayne Goodman
Price: 33.75 AUD

A Retelling of Bayard Taylor's Joseph and His Friend: A Pennsylvania Story

By: Wayne Goodman

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Paperback | 15 June 2017

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308 Pages

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21.6 x 14.0 x 1.7

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Joseph Asten, a handsome, 23-year-old farmer living in the Allegheny River Valley shortly after the Civil War, secretly longed for intimacy and love with other men. He devised a misguided plan to marry a woman who knew of his "dual nature" then his life took some unexpected, fateful turns. A retelling of the first American Gay novel from 1869.

Industry Reviews

"A lovely story, sumptuous in language and ideas with a rich ambience. For people who love a love story, it is thoroughly rewarding." -VINCENT MEIS, author of Deluge

"Wayne Goodman has turned the pallid prose of travel writer Bayard Taylor into a scintillating trip through 19th Century America. Those who loved James Baldwin's Another Country and Giovanni's Room will find something of value in Goodman's latest triumph." -KEVIN KILLIAN, author of Tony Greene Era

"Better Angels is a great read and a wonderful glimpse into a story of the 19th Century that has rarely been told. It writes queerness back into literary history, with an anti-racist spin." -DR. AJUAN MANCE, author of Before Harlem

"Better Angels takes another obscure, early Gay novel and brings it back to life, updating language, amplifying the story, and presenting love between men and men, and women and women more directly than it could have been presented when the book was first published. As with the first book in this series, Vanya Says "Go!," Goodman performs a historical service, giving readers a glimpse of Gay life lived 150 years ago." -RICHARD MAY, author of Inhuman Beings

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