Part crime story, part showbiz history, and part love story, this is a crackling novel about personal demons and dangerously suppressed passions that spans thirty years of gay life—the whole tumultuous era from the Kinsey Report through ...
But this is also a tale of survival and resiliency: the story of a devout, open-hearted woman who weathered a whirlwind of investigation, suspicion, and betrayal, and who refused to allow her enmeshment in the calamity of that November to ...
In this extraordinary novel, Thomas Mallon takes us to the tense, high-stakes months in 1986 when—with the Iran-Contra affair, the AIDS epidemic, and the Reykjavik summit with Gorbachev—Reagan and those around him were shaping history.
All brains, no brawn--that's Artie Dunne, a 115-pound grind with a passion for Keats and a determination to be the star of his class at Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
On the day in 1962 that astronaut Scott Carpenter takes off on his Aurora 7 space flight, an 11-year-old boy takes off on his own adventure in New York City.
A decade after exploring the diaries of everyone from monarchs to madmen in the much-acclaimed A Book of One's Own, Thomas Mallon now paints a brilliant mural of America itself.