The Golden Gate - Softcover

"At once a bittersweet love story, a wickedly funny novel of manners and an unsentimental meditation on mortality and the nuclear abyss. Always witty--and still profound--the book paints a truthful picture of our dreadful, comic times." --"Vanity Fair" "A splendid achievement, equally convincing in its exhilaration and its sadness." --"The New York Times" "The great California novel has been written in verse (and why not?): The Golden Gate gives great joy." --Gore Vidal " At once a bittersweet love story, a wickedly funny novel of manners and an unsentimental meditation on mortality and the nuclear abyss. Always witty--and still profound--the book paints a truthful picture of our dreadful, comic times." --"Vanity Fair" " A splendid achievement, equally convincing in its exhilaration and its sadness." --"The New York Times" " The great California novel has been written in verse (and why not?): The Golden Gate gives great joy." --Gore Vidal

The Golden Gate is a brilliantly achieved novel written in verse. Set in the 1980s in the affluence and sunshine of California's Silicon Valley, it is an exuberant and witty story of twenty-somethings looking for love, pleasure and the meaning of life. It was awarded the 1986 British Airways Commonwealth Poetry Prize.