num_pages: 387
description: Pursuing his separate goals of becoming a published writer and to come out of the closet, Martin Bauman, an insecure, talented student at a prestigious college, finds his life irrevocably altered by his teacher, Stanley Flint, as he discovers that his every achievement in life is shaped and haunted by his legedary mentor, in an incisive, multilayered novel of literary and sexual mores.
language: English
title: Martin Bauman; Or, a Sure Thing
titlecomplete: Martin Bauman; Or, a Sure Thing
genres: Fiction, Queer, LGBT, Gay Fiction, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, New York, Literary Fiction, Gay
ratings_count: 437
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: THE FERRO GRUMLEY AWARD
category: GAY FICTION
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt