In Memory of Angel Clare
A Novel
Published on 28. May 2013
288 pages
978-1-4804-2455-5 (ISBN)
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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, intimatecomedy about real grief and false grief, misunderstanding, friendship, love, and forgiveness.
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, intimatecomedy about real grief and false grief, misunderstanding, friendship, love, and forgiveness.
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Christopher Bram
In Memory of Angel Clare
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07/1989
Dutton Books
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Christopher Bram is the author of nine novels, including
Father of Frankenstein, which was made into the Academy Award-winning movie
Gods and Monsters, starring Ian McKellen. Bram grew up outside of Norfolk,Virginia, where he was a paperboy and an Eagle Scout. He graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1974 and moved to New York City in 1978. In addition to
Father of Frankenstein, he has written numerous articles and essays. His most recent book,
Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America, is a literary history.Bram was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2001, and in 2003, he received Publishing Triangle's Bill WhiteheadAward for Lifetime Achievement. He lives in Greenwich Village and teaches at New York University.
Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Dedication
- Epigraph
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- A Biography of Christopher Bram
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