{"product_id":"a-comfortable-corner-paperback","title":"A Comfortable Corner - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVincent Virga\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 1982 novel of love and recovery of alcoholism back in print.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I wish I lived in Vincent Virga's tragic, glamorous world.\" -Edmund White, \u003cem\u003eA Boy's Own Story\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Comfortable Corner\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel like no other, alive with hope and struggle, desperation and compassion, loneliness and community. Gay, straight, generational -alcoholism and recovery is an American story. This historically important, socially relevant book is now back in print for the first time since 1982.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I read \u003cem\u003eA Comfortable Corner\u003c\/em\u003e more than forty years ago. A friend handed it to me when I was trying to change my life. I bombed through its gleeful coziness and was delightedly puzzled that so much beautiful writing (and Vincent Virga is a beautiful writer - just go see for yourself - such passages! He does nature and bodies and cityscapes and food, he does everything in a lusty detailed rush in time) can also deliver a message because this is a book probably most of all for someone - well two someones, those interested in recovery and interested in a pitch perfect account of gay life.\" -from the new introduction by Eileen Myles, \u003cem\u003e Chelsea Girls: A Novel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Come for the luscious mandarin prose, stay for the operatic sweep of lives unraveling and rebuilding in this bejeweled time capsule of a novel. Arch, dazzling, glamorously romantic even at its most sensationally lurid, \u003cem\u003eA Comfortable Corner\u003c\/em\u003e is by turns a bittersweet remembrance of the post-Stonewall\/pre-AIDS Seventies, a harrowing account of the berserker ravages of alcohol, a heartfelt narrative of suffering and the unquenchable human need to love and be loved. A most remarkable book.\" -Paul Russell, \u003cem\u003eThe Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBoys of Life\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If Gaywyck is Virga's \u003cem\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eA Comfortable Corner\u003c\/em\u003e is his \u003cem\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eA Comfortable Corner e\u003c\/em\u003enfolded me in the love at its heart and the truly gimlet-eyed portrait of its world.\" -Larry Mellman, \u003cem\u003eThe Ballot Boy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 362\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 08, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44118732046471,"sku":"9781608643370","price":34.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/6mGrpl2VoN9781608643370.webp?v=1773039102","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/a-comfortable-corner-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}