Fellow Travelers

Name: Fellow Travelers
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9780307388902
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By Thomas Mallon

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In Fellow Travelers, Thomas Mallon crafts a tale set during the 1950s in Washington, D.C. The novel explores the intense, clandestine relationship between Timothy Laughlin, a young political idealist, and Hawkins Fuller, a charismatic State Department official, amidst the charged backdrop of McCarthyism and the Lavender Scare. The narrative delves into themes of love, politics, and the personal conflicts experienced in an era defined by paranoia and political witch hunts.
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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy nuanced stories set against the backdrop of 1950s Washington D.C., blending historical and political intrigue with a deeply moving personal narrative. Readers who appreciate richly developed characters and a thoughtful exploration of identity and loyalty during the McCarthy era might find this novel particularly engaging.

Fellow Travelers

Tim Laughlin, a recent college graduate and devout Catholic eager to join the crusade against Communism, finds his first love affair with a handsome State Department official. As Joe McCarthy mounts an increasingly desperate bid for power, Tim and Fuller find it ever more dangerous to navigate their double lives.

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NOW A SHOWTIME LIMITED SERIES STARRING MATT BOMER, JONATHAN BAILEY, AND ALLISON WILLIAMS.

Fellow Travelers is a searing historical novel set in 1950s Washington, D.C.—a world dominated by personalities like Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, and Joe McCarthy—and infused with political drama, unexpected humour, and heartbreak.

From the acclaimed author of Watergate and Up With the Sun.

Crisp, buoyant prose.—The New York Times Book Review

In a world of bare-knuckled ideology and secret dossiers, Timothy Laughlin, a recent college graduate and devout Catholic, is eager to join the crusade against Communism. An encounter with a handsome State Department official, Hawkins Fuller, leads to Tim's first job and, after Fuller's advances, his first love affair.

As McCarthy mounts a desperate bid for power and internal investigations focus on "sexual subversives" in the government, Tim and Fuller find it ever more dangerous to navigate their double lives while moving between the diplomatic world of Foggy Bottom and NATO's front line in Europe.

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Fellow Travelers by Thomas Mallon is praised for its sharp and lucid prose, with some reviewers claiming it to be Mallon's best work. Critics commend his ability to capture the period with crisp and buoyant writing. The novel is described as exuberant, brisk, and seductive, with one review highlighting it as a brilliant historical novel that stands out among contemporary fiction.

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ISBN: 9780307388902

Publisher: Random House USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 May 2008

Country: United States

Imprint: Vintage Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 19.0mm

Width: 132.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 266g

Pages: 368

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About the Author

THOMAS MALLON is the author of eleven novels, including Henry and Clara, Dewey Defeats Truman, Fellow Travelers, Watergate, and Landfall. He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, andother publications. In 2011 he received the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award for prose style. He has been the literary editor of GQ and the deputy chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He lives in Washington, D.C.

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