The new life : a novel
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : Scribner, 2023.
Format
Book
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
ISBN
9781668000830, 1668000830
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 24 cm
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Status
Morris County Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CREWE, TOM
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FICTION CREWE, TOM
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Morris County Library - Adult Fiction | FICTION CREWE, TOM | Available |
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Bernards Township Library - Adult Fiction | FICTION CREWE | Available |
Chester Library - Adult Fiction | FICTION CREWE | Available |
Florham Park Library - Adult Fiction | FICTION CREWE | Available |
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Published
New York : Scribner, 2023.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9781668000830, 1668000830
Notes
Description
In this powerful, visceral novel about love, sex, and the struggle for a better world, two men collaborate on a book in defense of homosexuality, then a crime-risking their old lives in the process. In the summer of 1894, John Addington and Henry Ellis begin writing a book arguing that what they call "inversion," or homosexuality, is a natural, harmless variation of human sexuality. Though they have never met, John and Henry both live in London with their wives, Catherine and Edith, and in each marriage there is a third party: John has a lover, a working class man named Frank, and Edith spends almost as much time with her friend Angelica as she does with Henry. John and Catherine have three grown daughters and a long, settled marriage, over the course of which Catherine has tried to accept her husband's sexuality and her own role in life; Henry and Edith's marriage is intended to be a revolution in itself, an intellectual partnership that dismantles the traditional understanding of what matrimony means. Shortly before the book is to be published, Oscar Wilde is arrested. John and Henry must decide whether to go on, risking social ostracism and imprisonment, or to give up the project for their own safety and the safety of the people they love. Is this the right moment to advance their cause? Is publishing bravery or foolishness? And what price is too high to pay for a new way of living?
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Crewe, T. (2023). The new life: a novel (First Scribner hardcover edition.). Scribner.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Crewe, Tom. 2023. The New Life: A Novel. Scribner.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Crewe, Tom. The New Life: A Novel Scribner, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Crewe, Tom. The New Life: A Novel First Scribner hardcover edition., Scribner, 2023.
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