The Cutbank Path

About the Book

Jack of Hearts and Living Upstairs (Lambda Award, 1993) chronicled the times of young writer-to-be Nathan Reed in the early 1940s. In The Cutbank Path, it´s 1952, and Nathan, bright, talented, funny, but not too smart about life, is living happily with school-teacher Steve Schaffer in a shacky little house in the Hollywood hills, among a crowd of odd but friendly neighbors. But Joe McCarthy has the whole country running scared. And Steve loses his job. Nathan fights to wangle it back for him. Then, just as the worst seems over, he gets the shock of his life.

About the Author

Joseph Hansen's twelve groundbreaking Dave Brandstetter mysteries (1970-1991) are acclaimed the world over. Hansen was born in South Dakota in 1923. In 1936 his family fled the dustbowl for California. The New Yorker began printing his poems in the 1950s. In the 1960s he published eight gay novels under the name James Colton. In 1991 he received a Private Eye Writers of America Lifetime Achievement award. Altogether, his books total close to forty, and he is not even thinking of quitting. He lives and writes in Laguna Beach, California.