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Gavin Lambert

(July 23rd, 1924 — July 17th, 2005)

Gavin Lambert was a British-American novelist, biographer, and screenwriter.


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The Goodby People

Gavin Lambert
Contemporary American-UK Literature

The Goodby People

Gavin Lambert’s is a portrait of Hollywood as the 1960s wane into the 1970s. Beaches and hot asphalt combined with mountains glowing in warm evening sun, Lambert paints a portrait of one world ending as a new one finds birth.

November 14, 2022November 13, 2022 by S. Hargrave — Comment on The Goodby People
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