num_pages: 307
description: The Golden Gate is a brilliantly achieved novel written in verse. Set in the 1980s in the affluence and sunshine of California's Silicon Valley, it is an exuberant and witty story of twenty-somethings looking for love, pleasure and the meaning of life. It was awarded the 1986 British Airways Commonwealth Poetry Prize.
language: English
title: The Golden Gate
titlecomplete: The Golden Gate
genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Indian Literature, The United States Of America, India, American, Literary Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Novels
ratings_count: 4643
places: San Francisco, California, California, Palo Alto, California
awards: awardedAt: 504950400000
name: California Book Award
category: Californiana (Gold), awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Faber and Faber