Pennsylvania Station
Subtitle: a novel
By: Patrick E. Horrigan
Publisher: Lethe Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781590216361
Subjects: Self-realization; Gay activists; Life change events; Closeted gays; Pennsylvania Station (New York, N.Y.); Architects; Fiction
Description: "Manhattan,1962. Frederick Bailey is a quiet, cultured, closeted architect reluctantly drawn into the effort to save Pennsylvania Station from being demolished. But when he meets Curt, a vibrant, immature gay activist more than half his age, he is overtaken by passions he hasn't felt in years, putting everything he cares about--his friends, his family, his career and reputation--at risk. As the elegant old train station is dismantled piece by piece to make way for the crass new Madison Square Garden sports arena, Frederick must undergo a reckoning he has dreaded all his life. Award-winning author Patrick E. Horrigan delves into the fractured psyches of mid-twentieth-century gay men, conjuring a picture of New York City and the nation on the brink of explosive cultural change" --