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The Golden Gate : a novel in verse by Vikram Seth is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This novel in verse about a group of California yuppies was one of the most highly praised books of 1986 and a bestseller on both coasts.Using the sonnet form throughout, and varying his language from lyrical elegance to timely vernacular, Seth's tale of four California Yuppies is as fully dimensional as a good novel, and twice as diverting. In this witty, compressed style, he gives us fully delineated characters: John, a Silicon Valley executive seeking solace in a meaningful amatory relationship; his friend and ex-lover Janet, an artist and musician in a raucous rock band; Liz, a vivacious Stanford law grad whose parents produce superior California wine; her brother Ed, floundering between sin and religion; and John's pal Phil, abandoned by his wife and left with his son, his moral vision and his scientific career at Lungless Labs, a scene of antinuclear protests and rallies. It is an engaging story of the pangs and passions of love, interlaced with serious ruminations on homosexuality and religion and on the future of the earth in the atomic age; and some comic sallies on feline behavior, bumper stickers, responses to "personals" ads, and other facets of the contemporary scene a

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Author

Vikram Seth

Publisher

Vintage International, Vintage Books, A division of Random House, Inc

Published

1987

Language

EN

ISBN

9780394750637

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Humanities