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The house of doors : a novel
- Title
- The house of doors : a novel / Tan Twan Eng.
- Author
- Tan, Twan Eng, 1972-
- Publication
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.
- ©2023
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 23-3704 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 306 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "The year is 1921. Lesley Hamlyn and her husband, Robert, a lawyer and war veteran, are living at Cassowary House on the Straits Settlement of Penang. When 'Willie' Somerset Maugham, a famed writer and old friend of Robert's, arrives for an extended visit with his secretary, Gerald, the pair threatens a rift that could alter more lives than one. Maugham, one of the great novelists of his day, is beleaguered: Having long hidden his homosexuality, his unhappy and expensive marriage of convenience becomes unbearable after he loses his savings--and the freedom to travel with Gerald. His career deflating, his health failing, Maugham arrives at Cassowary House in desperate need of a subject for his next book. Lesley, too, is enduring a marriage more duplicitous than it first appears. Maugham suspects an affair, and, learning of Lesley's past connection to the Chinese revolutionary Dr. Sun Yat Sen, decides to probe deeper. But as their friendship grows and Lesley confides in him about life in the Straits, Maugham discovers a far more surprising tale than he imagined, one that involves not only war and scandal but the trial of an Englishwoman charged with murder. It is, to Maugham, a story worthy of fiction"--Dust jacket flap.
- Subject
- Maugham, W. Somerset 1874-1965 > Fiction
- Proudlock, Ethel > Trials, litigation, etc. > Fiction
- Maugham, W. Somerset 1874-1965
- Proudlock, Ethel
- 1867-1942
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) > Fiction
- Friendship > Fiction
- Secrecy > Fiction
- Gay men > Fiction
- Married people > Fiction
- Fiction
- fiction (general genre)
- Gay authors > Fiction
- Friendships
- Gay authors
- Gay men
- LGBTQ+ authors
- LGBTQ+ people
- Love triangles
- Marital status
- Married people
- Men
- Secrecy
- Sexual minorities
- Sexual relationships
- Friendship
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
- Malaya > History > British rule, 1867-1942 > Fiction
- Pulau Pinang (Malaysia : State) > Fiction
- Pinang Island (Pulau Pinang, Malaysia) > Fiction
- Malaya > Fiction
- Malaysia > Pulau Pinang (State)
- Malaya
- Malaysia > Pinang Island (Pulau Pinang)
- Malaysia
- Genre/Form
- Gay fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Biographical fiction.
- Novels.
- LGBTQ+ fiction.
- Trials, litigation, etc.
- Fiction.
- History.
- Note
- "First published in 2023 in Great Britain by Canongate Books Ltd. First published in the United States in 2023"--Title page verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-306).
- Call Number
- JFE 23-3704
- ISBN
- 9781639731930
- 1639731938
- OCLC
- 1355038825
- Author
- Tan, Twan Eng, 1972- author.
- Title
- The house of doors : a novel / Tan Twan Eng.
- Publisher
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-306).
- Chronological Term
- 1867-1942
- Research Call Number
- JFE 23-3704