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One of These Things First is a wry and poignant reminiscence of a 15 year old gay Jewish boy in Brooklyn in the early sixties, and his unexpected trajectory from a life behind a rack of dresses in his grandmother’s bra and girdle store, to Manhattan’s fabled Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, a fashionable Charenton for wealthy neurotics and Ivy League alcoholics, whose famous alumni include writers, poets, madmen, Marilyn Monroe, and bestselling author Steven Gaines.
Price: $24.95
Publisher: Delphinium Books
Imprint: Delphinium Books
Publication Date:
August 9, 2016
Trim Size: 8.25 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9781883285692
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LGBTQ+, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Jewish, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (incl. Patients)
"One of These Things First is not only a departure but an absolute treasure. [Gaines is] a skilled humorist as well as a tender yet trenchant observer of human behavior and the social forces that so often control it."
— New York Times Book Review
"Funny and poignant."
— New York Post
"A longtime journalist and artful chronicler of New York lives, Gaines’s look back at his own is shocking, funny, and sometimes shockingly funny. A real treasure."
— Nickolas Butler, internationally bestselling author of Shotgun Lovesongs and The Hearts of Men
— New York Times Book Review
"Funny and poignant."
— New York Post
"A longtime journalist and artful chronicler of New York lives, Gaines’s look back at his own is shocking, funny, and sometimes shockingly funny. A real treasure."
— Nickolas Butler, internationally bestselling author of Shotgun Lovesongs and The Hearts of Men