The Man on the Third Floor

Walter Samson is a successful book editor in post-World War Two New York. He has more than enough money, an interesting wife, Phyllis, two smart children and reason to believe he's leading the good American life. That is, until by chance he meets Barry Rogers. Barry is blue collar, handsome, single, and poor.

Walter is instantly drawn to Barry and, despite the considerable risks, installs him in the Samson's three-storey house on the Upper East Side, where the two men try to keep their amorous relationship secret.

Against a backdrop of McCarthy-era paranoia with its doleful consequences and society's pervasive homophobia, Walter manages to alter the direction and course of his life, losing much, gaining more.

• Author
• Anne Bernays

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 184

• Publisher
• The Permanent Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781579622855

• Genres
• fiction, lgbt, audiobook

• Release date
• 2012