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Martin Bauman: Or, A Sure Thing
David Leavitt · 2000 · 387 pages
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.
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Alison Bechdel
“I love this book almost as much as I hate it. Martin, a thinly disguised version of Leavitt himself, describes the “brat pack” of young writers he was a part of in the New York literary scene of the mid-1980s. It’s sort of like watching a train wreck, fascinating and horrifying at once.”↗