The Man on the Third Floor, Anne Bernays
The Man on the Third Floor, Anne Bernays
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The Man on the Third Floor

Author: Anne Bernays

Narrator: Paul Michael

Unabridged: 5 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/15/2012

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

Walter Samson is a successful book editor in postWorld War II New York. He has more than enough money, an interesting wife, two smart children, and reason to believe hes leading the good American lifeuntil a chance meeting with Barry Rogers. Barry is blue-collar, handsome, single, and poor.Walter is instantly drawn to Barry and, despite the considerable risks, installs him in the Samsons three-story house on 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 societys pervasive homophobia, Walter manages to alter the direction and course of his life, losing much but gaining more.

About Anne Bernays

Anne Bernays is the author of ten novels and several works of nonfiction. Her articles and essays have appeared in numerous major publications, among them the Nation, New York Times, Town & Country, and Sports Illustrated. A longtime 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 Professor Romeo was a New York Times Notable Book. She lives in Cambridge and Truro, Massachusetts, with her husband, Justin Kaplan.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Blake

This slim volume covers quite a bit of territory in its 184 pages. Ostensibly, it's about the gay awakening of its narrator, Walter Samson, set against the backdrop of the 1950’s New York publishing world and the red scare of the McCarthy era. Drawing obvious parallels between the communist witch hu......more

Goodreads review by Bill Silva

I'm rounding up from 2.5 stars...but that's being generous. There is an old-fashioned quality to the novel (published in 2012)--in subject, style, and point of view, it reads as if it was written in the era of its setting (primarily the late 1940s and '50s) without any hint of how the intervening ye......more

Goodreads review by Laura

I read this book thanks to my fiance, who won the book through a Goodreads giveaway. He spoke highly of the book and put it on the top of my 'to read' pile of books--that's high praise from him! The Man on the Third Floor portrays the life of a book publisher in the early- to mid-1900's. This publish......more

Goodreads review by Masha

Post war times, famous publisher has an amazing wife, 2 kids and a male lover living in his house. Story is scandalous for the times but what I liked about it is actually not the plot necessarily, but how concise and insightful main character’s personality is described. His thoughts, dreams, fears.......more

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