num_pages: 336
description: In Edmund White's most moving novel yet, an American living in Paris finds his life transformed by an unexpected love affair. Austin Smith is pushing fifty, loveless and drifting, until one day he meets Julien, a much younger, married Frenchman. In the beginning, the lovers' only impediments are the comic clashes of culture, age, and temperament. Before long, however, the past begins to catch up with them. In a desperate quest to save health and happiness, they move from Venice to Key West, from Montreal in the snow to Providence in the rain. But it is amid the bleak, baking sands of the Sahara that their love is pushed to its ultimate crisis.
language: English
title: The Married Man
titlecomplete: The Married Man
genres: American, LGBT, Gay, Gay Fiction, Queer Lit, Romance, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Fiction, Queer
ratings_count: 1180
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Ferro-Grumley Award
category: Gay Fiction, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Fiction
publisher: Vintage