![]() ![]() ![]() Condition: Fine bright copy, some toning on upper edges, near fine dust jacket, un price-clipped, in Brodart cover. When you buy books using these links the Internet Archive may earn a small. ![]() It is a beginning in the process of closing the gap between public perception of the gay experience and the human experience. The Front Runner by Patricia Nell Warren, March 1, 1988, Plume edition. And, while tragedy plays a part in the book, The Front Runner has none of the furtiveness or melancholia that seemed to infuse contemporary gay life and writing up to that point. Reflecting the pride in gay expression of the period and Warren’s own coming-out experience as a lesbian, the novel’s focus on the traditionally masculine worlds of professional sports and the military was groundbreaking and formative for gay literature and gay activism. True, there were a few grumbles when the front-runner Ruth Bader Ginsburg film lost best documentary to the admittedly gripping rock-climbing doc Free Solo. Her second novel, The Front Runner tells of a closeted ex-marine track coach and his relationship with the openly gay college student he is training. Warren (1936-2019), who grew up the child of cattle ranchers in southwest Montana, began to write at the age of ten and by college was a recognized literary talent. Patricia Nell Warren’s 1974 novel, The Front Runner was the first work of contemporary gay fiction to make the New York Times bestseller list. ![]()
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