The Secret Defector

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Publication Year:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781480437067

<DIV><DIV><b>A passionately realized novel about an affair between a wandering American and cutting-edge female novelist</b></div><DIV><BR>Clancy Sigal&rsquo;s fourth novel centers on expatriate Gus Black, a freethinker who moves to England in search of a new life. He absorbs the native culture by plunging into its dark corners. Amid the upheavals, he lands a job at <i>Vogue</i>, consorting with models like Twiggy and Jean Shrimpton, and commences a passionate affair with Rose O&rsquo;Malley, a brilliant writer loosely based on Sigal&rsquo;s real-life lover Doris Lessing.</div><DIV><BR>Set in the swinging London of the fifties and sixties, <i>The Secret Defector </i>is a portrait of an American on the loose striving to define himself against an alien yet oddly familiar culture. Sigal&rsquo;s frequent themes of the working class, the counterculture, and Marxism are in evidence, as is his self-deprecating wit. This quasi-autobiographical novel takes Clancy&rsquo;s trademark energy to confront the decline of the left and the rise of feminism.</div><DIV></div></div>