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Comic, erotic, and richly imagined, Allan Stein follows the journey of a compromised young teacher to Paris to uncover the sad history of Gertrude Stein's troubled nephew Allan. Having been fired from his job because of a sex scandal involving a student, the teacher travels to Paris under an assumed name -- that of his best friend, Herbert. In Paris, "Herbert" becomes enchanted by Stephane, a fifteen-year-old boy. As he unravels the gilded but sad childhood of Allan Stein, "Herbert" is haunted by memories of his own boyhood, particularly his odd, flamboyant mother. Moving from the late twentieth century back to the 1900s, effortlessly blending fact and fiction, Allan Stein is a charged exploration of eroticism, obsession, and identity.
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Americans, Family, Fiction, Gay men, Identity (Psychology), Intellectual life, Fiction, gay, Gay men, fiction, Paris (france), fiction, Fiction, psychological, LGBTQ novels, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner, New York Times reviewed, Teachers, Families, Fiction, lgbtq+, gayPeople
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Allan Stein: a novel
1999, Grove Press, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
in English
- 1st ed.
0802116353 9780802116352
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Allan Stein
December 6, 1999, Grove Press
Paperback
in English
- 1st Pbk. Ed edition
0802136621 9780802136626
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"We arrived at noon and left our bags with a woman who said she worked for the hotel."
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