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"There is humor in the characters' irreverence and passion in their reverence....Flamboyant is a brilliant commentator on our times."-Mary Kay Zuravleff, Washington Post Book World
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"[A] big-hearted novel....Among the pleasures of reading Flamboyant are Swados' straightforward style, her perfectly-pitched rendering of the two voices, her humor and the urban realism of her prose." --Jewish Week
"Readers will applaud the compassion with which Swados, without demeaning any of her characters, negotiates a seemingly insoluble situation." --Library Journal
"Swados' captivated readers will be moved to both laughter and tears." --Booklist
Elizabeth Swados is an Obie Award-winning playwright and a novelist. Her novels include Leah and Lazar and The Myth Man. She is also the author of a memoir, entitled The Four of Us. She lives in New York.
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- PublisherPicador USA
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0312195478
- ISBN 13 9780312195472
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages244
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