In Memory of Angel Clare - Softcover

Bram, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452264340 ISBN 13: 9780452264342

Publisher: Penguin, 1990

Synopsis

The new novel by the bestselling author of Hold Tight, this brilliant comedy of manners set among a group of Manhattan sophisticates depicts the friends of a dead filmmaker trying to put their lives back together a task made more arduous by the young boyfriend he left behind. hough he might have minced about it, Henry James would have been delighted by the situation presented here. Bram 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0452264340
• ISBN 13: 9780452264342
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 288