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Synopsis
A group of worldly New Yorkers inherit a friend’s last lover.
A year after the AIDS-related death of filmmaker Clarence Laird, known to friends as Angel Clare, his young boyfriend, Michael, is still in deep mourning. Clarence’s older, sophisticated friends—male and female, gay and straight—find themselves the custodians of Michael, a callow kid they never liked much to begin with. What follows is a dark, intimate comedy about real grief and false grief, misunderstanding, friendship, love, and forgiveness.
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About the Author
Christopher Bram is the author of five previous novels, including Father of Frankenstein (Dutton/Plume), which is currently being developed into a film with Clive Barker as executive producer. A widely published book and film critic whose work appears in numerous publications across the country, he lives in New York City.
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Though he might have minced about it, Henry James would have been delighted by the situation presented here. Bram ( Hold Tight ) depicts a circle of friends of a dead filmmaker chafing at the responsibility of consoling his very young lover. With the exception of a middle-aged married couple, the characters are gay and out of the closet, and perhaps this accounts for the concern they feel, one year after the death of their friend, in trying to save the boy from his excessive, unresolved mourning. Bram's characters are candidly, truthfully observed; their alternative lifestyles clearly portrayed. In the end, however, it is the common humanity of these Manhattan sophisticates that triumphs quietly in a surprising, dramatic climax. James would have admired the wit and the sustained tone of this new comedy of manners, a very "New York" novel in sensibility and subject.
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- PublisherGay Men's Press
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0854491457
- ISBN 13 9780854491452
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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IN MEMORY OF ANGEL CLARE,
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GMP, Gay Men's Press, London, 1st GMP edition, 1991,, 1994
ISBN 10: 0854491457
ISBN 13: 9780854491452
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paperback, very good, crease on spine. 288pp. Gay fiction, "Angel Clare" was a man who meant many things to many people, not least his young lover Michael. Seller Inventory # 1493
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