{"product_id":"a-day-and-a-night-at-the-baths-9780982807408","title":"A Day and a Night at the Baths","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe dates are important to mention in order to put the open sensuality in the novel in perspective., that is, pre-AIDS, when male-male sexuality was being liberated from its centuries-long subterranean hiddenness into a visibility if only, in this instance, of the twilit and claustrophobic \"freedom\" of a bath house.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e (M.R. from the intro)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRumaker, Michael:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Michael Rumaker is an American author (born March 5, 1932 in Philadelphia, PA), to Michael Joseph and Winifred Marvel Rumaker. He is a graduate of Black Mountain College (1955) and Columbia University (1970). Most of Rumaker's fiction concerns his life as a gay man. His first book, The Butterfly, is a fictionalized memoir of his brief affair with a young Yoko Ono, published before Ono became famous. His short stories, Gringos and other stories, appeared in 1967. A revised and expanded version appeared in 1991. He began to write directly about his life as a gay man in the volumes A Day and a Night at the Baths (1979) and My First Satyrnalia (1981). The novel Pagan Days (1991) is told from the perspective of an eight-year old boy struggling to understand his gay self. Black Mountain Days, a memoir of his time at Black Mountain College, has a strong autobiographical element In addition, there are portraits of many students, faculty, and visitors (especially the poets Robert Creeley and Charles Olson) during its last years, 1952-1956.","brand":"Spuyten Duyvil","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50414483865874,"sku":"9780982807408","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_08473ec7-543b-4111-a193-2bdfbc6a43be.jpg?v=1729369205","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-day-and-a-night-at-the-baths-9780982807408","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}