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The future was color : a novel
Published 2024 by Counterpoint, San Francisco, California
ISBN 9781640096240
Bib Id 1447280
Edition First Counterpoint edition.
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cam a22 8i 4500
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2023-052623
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9781640096240 (hardcover) $26.00
1640096248
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FIC Nathan
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The future was color : a novel
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First Counterpoint edition.
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2024 by Counterpoint, San Francisco, California :
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"As a Hungarian immigrant working as a studio hack writing monster movies in 1950s Hollywood, George Curtis must navigate the McCarthy-era studio system filled with possible communists and spies, the life of closeted men along Sunset Boulevard, and the inability of the era to cleave love from persecution and guilt. But when Madeline, a famous actress, offers George a writing residency at her estate in Malibu to work on the political writing he cares most deeply about, his world is blown open. Soon Madeline is carrying George like an ornament into a class of postwar L.A. society ordinarily hidden from men like him. What this lifestyle hides behind, aside from the monsters on the screen, are the monsters dwelling closer to home: this bacchanalia covers a gnawing hole shelled wide by the horror of the war they thought they'd left behind and the glimpse of an atomic future. It's here that George understands he can never escape his past as György, the queer Jew who fled Budapest before the war and landed in New York, all alone, a decade prior"--
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Queer fiction.
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