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The Golden Gate, follow the lives and exploits of a group of young Americans living in the 1980s it also portrays the empty promises of life. The Golden Gate is a true novel, as author and publisher insist. A novel with a feel of Realism, written in a verse form, and it conducts us on a psychological journey through the life of five interesting souls. Upwardly mobile young professionals, they all live and work in San Francisco and the Silicon Valley, with no awareness of the outside world. Cosmopolitanism or the impact of cosmopolitan lifestyle upon the individual have been dealt with in great detail. Seth’s verse novel, The Golden Gate superbly sticks to cannons of Realism in an explicit way. The novel follows a linear pattern of narration, splendid characterization, and it is adorned with a plot of plausible and truthful nature. Seth’s unique social concern truthfully portrays the angst of the hypermodern American society with prophetical insights imbued with powerful observation.