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Walter Samson is a successful book editor in post World War Two New York. He has more than money, an interesting wife, Phyllis, two smart children and reason to believe he's leading the good American life. That is, until he meets Barry Rogers by chance. Barry is blue collar, handsome, single and poor.
Walter is instantly drawn to Barry and, despite the considerable risks, installs him in the Samson's three story house on the the Upper East Side, where the two men try to keep their amorous relationship secret.
Against a backdrop of McCarthy-era fear with its doleful consequences and with society's pervasive homophobia, Walter manages to alter the direction and course of his life, losing much, gaining more.
Walter is instantly drawn to Barry and, despite the considerable risks, installs him in the Samson's three story house on the the Upper East Side, where the two men try to keep their amorous relationship secret.
Against a backdrop of McCarthy-era fear with its doleful consequences and with society's pervasive homophobia, Walter manages to alter the direction and course of his life, losing much, gaining more.
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This is Anne Bernays tenth novel. She is the co-author of three non-fiction books and scores of articles, book reviews and essays in national publications. A long-time teacher of writing, she is currently on the faculty of Lesley University's MFA program in writing and is a writing instructor at Harvard's Nieman Foundation. Her novel, Growing Up Rich, won the Edward Lewis Wallent Award and another novel, Professor Romeo was a New York Times Notable Book.
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''It's what Edith Wharton or Louis Auchincloss might have written had they been free to write about a middle-aged and apparently happy man who finds himself falling in love with another man.'' --Michael Korda, #1 New York Times bestselling author
''I just love this book. It's my favorite of all her books by light-years.'' --Annie Dillard, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
''Bernays deftly articulates the difficulties faced by homosexuals during the McCarthy witch-hunt years . . . [She] explores a dramatic era in American history and the psyches of her characters with equal ease in this well-written and entertaining new novel.'' --Publishers Weekly
''Anne Bernays is a wonderful writer, and The Man On The Third Floor is an elegant and compelling meditation on love, work, loyalty, and sexual desire.'' --Hilma Wolitzer, author of An Available Man
''I just love this book. It's my favorite of all her books by light-years.'' --Annie Dillard, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
''Bernays deftly articulates the difficulties faced by homosexuals during the McCarthy witch-hunt years . . . [She] explores a dramatic era in American history and the psyches of her characters with equal ease in this well-written and entertaining new novel.'' --Publishers Weekly
''Anne Bernays is a wonderful writer, and The Man On The Third Floor is an elegant and compelling meditation on love, work, loyalty, and sexual desire.'' --Hilma Wolitzer, author of An Available Man
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