- Fiction, Gay men, LGBTQ novels, LGBTQ humor
While writing songs for would-be singer Elsa Champion, cafe society fellow Philip Cavanaugh must spy on her and her boorish real-estate mogul husband in order to provide friend Gilbert Selwyn with dirt for his forthcoming expose
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Classical in form, comic, cool and warm.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Joe Keenan
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 325
- Publisher
- Arrow Books Ltd, Penguin, Penguin Random House
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- und, English
- ISBN
- 9780140149890
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