The Gay Place

<p>Set in Texas <i>The Gay Place</i> consists of three interlocking novels each with a different protagonist-a member of the state legislature the state's junior senator and the governor's press secretary. The governor himself Arthur Fenstemaker a master politician infinitely canny and seductive remains the dominant figure throughout.</p> <p>Billy Lee Brammer-who served on Lyndon Johnson's staff-gives us here the excitement of a political carnival: the sideshows the freaks and the ghoulish comedy atmosphere <i>(Saturday Review).</i></p> <p>Originally published in 1961 <i>The Gay Place</i> is at once a cult classic and a major American novel.</p>