The Resource The cosmopolitans, Sarah Schulman
The cosmopolitans, Sarah Schulman
Resource Information
The item The cosmopolitans, Sarah Schulman represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 12 library branches. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item The cosmopolitans, Sarah Schulman represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 12 library branches.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- A modern retelling of Balzac's classic Cousin Bette by one of America's most prolific and significant writers. Earl, a black, gay actor working in a meatpacking plant, and Bette, a white secretary, have lived next door to each other in the same Greenwich Village apartment building for thirty years. Shamed and disowned by their familied, both found refuge in New York and in their domestic routine. Everything changes when Hortense, a wealthy young actress from Ohio, comes to the city to "make it."
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The cosmopolitans
- Title
- The cosmopolitans
- Statement of responsibility
- Sarah Schulman
- Subject
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- trueActors and actresses
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueAfrican American gay men
- trueCousins
- West Village (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueRejection (Psychology)
- trueFamily relationships
- trueCity dwellers
- trueAdaptations, retellings, and spin-offs
- Actresses -- Fiction
- trueInterpersonal conflict
- trueDesire
- true1950s -- 1950 -- 1959
- trueSecretaries
- trueFriendship
- trueNew York City -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Domestic fiction
- Gay actors -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A modern retelling of Balzac's classic Cousin Bette by one of America's most prolific and significant writers. Earl, a black, gay actor working in a meatpacking plant, and Bette, a white secretary, have lived next door to each other in the same Greenwich Village apartment building for thirty years. Shamed and disowned by their familied, both found refuge in New York and in their domestic routine. Everything changes when Hortense, a wealthy young actress from Ohio, comes to the city to "make it."
- Summary
- Two unlikely friends, cast out of their own families, search for understanding in 1950s Bohemian New York City
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10481287
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1958-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Schulman, Sarah
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1799-1850
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Balzac, Honore de
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- True
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- West Village (New York, N.Y.)
- Gay actors
- Actresses
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The cosmopolitans, Sarah Schulman
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn907652966
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 377 pages
- Isbn
- 9781558619104
- Lccn
- 2015017798
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)907652966
- Label
- The cosmopolitans, Sarah Schulman
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn907652966
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 377 pages
- Isbn
- 9781558619104
- Lccn
- 2015017798
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)907652966
Subject
- true1950s -- 1950 -- 1959
- trueActors and actresses
- Actresses -- Fiction
- trueAdaptations, retellings, and spin-offs
- trueAfrican American gay men
- trueCity dwellers
- trueCousins
- trueDesire
- Domestic fiction
- trueFamily relationships
- trueFriendship
- Gay actors -- Fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueInterpersonal conflict
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueNew York City -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- trueRejection (Psychology)
- trueSecretaries
- West Village (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
Genre
- trueAdaptations, retellings, and spin-offs
- trueDomestic fiction
- Fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueLiterary fiction
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