false 1690159 6 Beaten up, bruised, and scared, a young writer hides in a Stockholm apartment, writing the story of its disappeared inhabitants: the flamboyant and charismatic Morgan brothers.<br><br>It all began a year earlier, when he was rooming with Henry Morgan, a boxer, piano player, composer, bartender, and old-fashioned gentleman with a Gatsby-like capacity for turning life into a feast and absolutely no talent for keeping secrets. <br><br>The two friends led the high-life in Stockholm until the day Henry&#8217;s younger brother Leo &#8211; a star poet, drunk, political provocateur &#8211; showed up. Leo drags them into a scandal involving illegal weapons and gangsters, and soon the three men find themselves unwittingly and irreversibly trapped in a dangerous plot.<br><br>Written with an intense regard for storytelling and style, <b>Gentlemen</b> is the most important literary work to emerge from Sweden in the past thirty years &#8211; simultaneously celebrating and mourning the post-WWII era with its jazz music, poetry, hidden treasures, and espionage. 1687005 1995 Gentlemen total:19|5:8|4:6|3:4|2:1|1:0| 19 78 36 2 3 0 false false Thu Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 00:57:08 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 07:55:42 -0700 2009 once more...]]> 3 0 true false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 28 03:13:59 -0800 2007 Tue Jan 22 04:16:55 -0800 2008
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