A Heaven of Words: Last Journals, 1956-1984
"When a writer like Wescott is famous in youth, it is the later years that are often more fascinating."—Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, author ofSex the Measure of All Things: A Life of Alfred C. Kinsey"A frank and insightful collection of later journals from a brilliant gay writer and Lost Generation survivor. Full of literary and sexual anecdotes, wise ruminations on the writer's craft, and poignant reflections on growing older as a writer and a lover of men,A Heaven of Wordsshows Wescott's Haymeadows home to be a microcosmic, literaryDownton Abbey."—Kevin Bentley, author ofWild Animals I Have Known: Polk Street Diaries and After