A big sprawling first-person novel which hit it HUGE for this author in the 1980s, I believe. A movie was made of it (I think) – and Ellen Burstyn developed it into a one-woman show for Broadway (only it closed after a couple of performances).
This author wrote another novel, about AIDS hitting the artist-scene in New York City (a devastating and beautiful book) – but this book (the one the quote comes from) was his real HIT.
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A big sprawling first-person novel which hit it HUGE for this author in the 1980s, I believe. A movie was made of it (I think) – and Ellen Burstyn developed it into a one-woman show for Broadway (only it closed after a couple of performances).
This author wrote another novel, about AIDS hitting the artist-scene in New York City (a devastating and beautiful book) – but this book (the one the quote comes from) was his real HIT.
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The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All? Or something like that??
Bates!!
You got it!! Allan Gurganus wrote it.