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The Golden Gate
The Golden Gate | Vikram Seth
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The Great California Novel Has Been Written, In Verse (And Why Not?): The Golden Gate Gives Great Joy' Gore Vidal 'A New Star In The Literary Firmament & It Outshines In Brilliance Anything That I Have Seen In Half-A-Century Of Star-Spotting & Seth Has The Stuff That Nobel Laureates Are Made Of' Khushwant Singh, Illustrated Weekly Of India 'A Tour De Force Of Rhyme And Reasonableness. The Golden Gate Doesn'T Only Compellingly Advocate Life'S Pleasures, It Stylishly Contributes Another One To Them' Sunday Times , London 'Seth Is The Most Astute And Sharp-Tongued Social Critic To Arrive On The Scene Since Jonathan Swift' India Today 'A Thing Of Anomalous Beauty & Seth Writes Poetry As It Has Not Been Written For A Century' Washington Post Book World
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rwmg
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A group of friends look for love in San Francisco around 1980.

I can look on this verse novel as something of a tour de force and it is fun watching the author's verbal dexterity in keeping to the meter, but the actual story is really rather slight.

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rwmg
The Golden Gate | Vikram Seth
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JoeMo
The Golden Gate | Vikram Seth
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1. Hell yes I have…as a progressive living in a relatively conservative area, it‘s a good way to meet people.

2. I recommend Golden Gate…a really unique book based in the 80s. One of the characters uses the personal ads to meet someone!

#Two4Tuesday

Yuki_Onna Now I really wonder where you live 🫠 1y
TheSpineView Thanks for playing! 1y
JoeMo @Yuki_Onna It‘s the Lancaster/central Pennsylvania area, which is quite conservative for the most part. Some call us the Bible Belt moved north. 1y
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Blueberry
The Golden Gate | Vikram Seth
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Eggs Beautiful!!! 2y
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Jari-chan
The Golden Gate | Vikram Seth
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Panpan

This book is written in rhymes. Sadly, nobody has told the author that rhymes do not save a boring story, that has already been told a hundred times.