The cosmopolitans, Sarah Schulman
Type
Label
The cosmopolitans, Sarah Schulman
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
The cosmopolitans
Oclc number
907652966
Responsibility statement
Sarah Schulman
Summary
A modern retelling of Balzac's classic Cousin Bette by one of America's most prolific and significant writers. Earl, a black, gay actor working in a meatpacking plant, and Bette, a white secretary, have lived next door to each other in the same Greenwich Village apartment building for thirty years. Shamed and disowned by their familied, both found refuge in New York and in their domestic routine. Everything changes when Hortense, a wealthy young actress from Ohio, comes to the city to "make it."