Landscape With Traveler: The Pillow Book of Francis Reeves

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In print for the first time in 15 years, Landscape with Traveler was the first full-length novel by Gifford. It lays bare the themes that have marked his lifelong career: gay issues; a winsome, Beat-inspired frenzy of love; the generation-defining crossroads in American history. Written as the protagonist's diary, and structured as three acclaimed short novels bound into one volume, the book recounts the deep friendship between a middle-aged gay man and a young straight man through vignette-like entries, all the while tracing a history of US.

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"Landscape with Traveler is a novel with character. The tone is so light and airy it achieves its own separate sense of time...beautifully refined without sacrificing wit or warmth. It's a delight." The Boston Sunday Globe

"For reminding us so artfully of the difficult simplicities, reminding us of what we already know, [the protagonist] Francis Reeves will become part of our landscape."Washington Post Book World

"Landscape with Traveler is a major accomplishment, a small profound novel that will leave the reader utterly affected. Barry Gifford has created a small masterpiece."
San Francisco Bay Guardian

Author Bio

"BARRY GIFFORD was born in Chicago in 1946. The author of more than forty published works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, which have been translated into twenty-eight languages, Gifford began as a poet and musician. His most recent prose works are Sailor & Lula- The Complete Novels, Sad Stories of the Death of Kings, and Memories from a Sinking Ship- A Novel. His most recent poetry collection is Imagining Paradise- New and Selected Poems (2012). Gifford lives in the San Francisco area and maintains a website at www.barrygifford.com."