The Secret Defector: A Novel
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- Synopsis
- A passionately realized novel about an affair between a wandering American and cutting-edge female novelistClancy Sigal&’s fourth novel centers on expatriate Gus Black, a freethinker who moves to England in search of a new life. He absorbs the native culture by plunging into its dark corners. Amid the upheavals, he lands a job at Vogue, consorting with models like Twiggy and Jean Shrimpton, and commences a passionate affair with Rose O&’Malley, a brilliant writer loosely based on Sigal&’s real-life lover Doris Lessing.Set in the swinging London of the fifties and sixties, The Secret Defector is a portrait of an American on the loose striving to define himself against an alien yet oddly familiar culture. Sigal&’s frequent themes of the working class, the counterculture, and Marxism are in evidence, as is his self-deprecating wit. This quasi-autobiographical novel takes Clancy&’s trademark energy to confront the decline of the left and the rise of feminism.
- Copyright:
- 1992
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 274 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781480437067
- Publisher:
- Open Road Media
- Date of Addition:
- 11/29/24
- Copyrighted By:
- Clancy Sigal
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Politics and Government
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.