{"product_id":"a-comfortable-corner-9781608643370","title":"A Comfortable Corner","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-13624065\"\u003eVincent Virga\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Library of Homosexual Congress\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/08\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 362\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781608643370\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1608643379\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC011000\"\u003eLGBTQ+ | Gay\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of Homosexual Congress","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48460343345389,"sku":"9781608643370","price":31.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/files\/img_ab4690dc-31e7-46a6-995e-ecf13eb15b20.jpg?v=1753663425","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/a-comfortable-corner-9781608643370","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}