The Golden Gate (Seth novel)
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The Golden Gate is the first novel by poet and novelist Vikram Seth. The work is a novel in verse composed of 590 fourteen-line Onegin stanzas written in iambic tetrameter, with the rhyme scheme follo
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Yuppie
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Yuppie, short for "young urban professional" or "young upwardly-mobile professional", is a term coined in the early 1980s for a young professional person working in a city. The term is first attested
The Golden Gate (Seth novel)
…of Eugene Onegin). It was inspired by Charles Johnston's translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin. Set in the 1980s, The Golden Gate follows a group of yuppies in San Francisco. The inciting action occurs when lonely protagonist John Brown learns with consternation that his friend and former love Janet Hayakawa…
Anti-yuppie graffiti criticizing the gentrification of Austin, Texas