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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Previously titled Father of Frankenstein, this acclaimed novel was the basis for the 1998 film starring Sir Ian McKellen, Lynn Redgrave, and Brendan Fraser. It journeys back to 1957 Los Angeles, where James Whale, the once-famous director of such classics as Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, is living in retirement, haunted by his past. Rescuing him from his too-vivid imagination is his gardener, a handsome ex-marine. The friendship between these two very different men is sometimes tentative, sometimes touching, often dangerous--and always captivating. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Lives of the Circus Animals is a brilliant new comedy about New York theater people: actors, writers, personal assistants, and a drama critic for the New York Times. They are male, female, straight, gay, in love with their work or in love with each other, and one of them, British star Henry Lewse, "the Hamlet of his generation," is famous. Award-winning novelist Christopher Bram gives us ten days and nights in this small-town world in the heart of a big city, an engaging novel that is also a satiric celebration of the quest for sanity in the face of those two impostors, success and failure. …

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Lives of the Circus Animals is a brilliant new comedy about New York theater people: actors, writers, personal assistants, and a drama critic for the New York Times. They are male, female, straight, gay, in love with their work or in love with each other, and one of them, British star Henry Lewse, "the Hamlet of his generation," is famous. Award-winning novelist Christopher Bram gives us ten days and nights in this small-town world in the heart of a big city, an engaging novel that is also a satiric celebration of the quest for sanity in the face of those two impostors, success and failure.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Seventeen-year-old Joel can't be gay if he's straight After four years of living with relatives in Switzerland, 17-year-old Joel Scherzenlieb finds himself in the United States for the summer, working at a Boy Scout camp. There, he meets 19-year-old Corey Cobbett, a fellow counselor and the only person Joel wants to be friends with. Soon, Joel's sarcastic, distant CIA father shows up and whisks him away to live with his mother, grandmother, and older sister on a farm in Virginia - he's not going back to Switzerland after all. As his father pleads poverty and his dreams of going to college vanish, Joel faces his longest year yet. But everything changes when Corey returns to his life, bringing with him the discovery and excitement of reciprocal love.…

Zustand: Good. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: First ] Publisher: Plume Pub Date: 4/1/1993 Binding: Paperback Pages: 416 First edition.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Previously titled Father of Frankenstein, this acclaimed novel was the basis for the 1998 film starring Sir Ian McKellen, Lynn Redgrave, and Brendan Fraser. It journeys back to 1957 Los Angeles, where James Whale, the once-famous director of such classics as Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, is living in retirement, haunted by his past. Rescuing him from his too-vivid imagination is his gardener, a handsome ex-marine. The friendship between these two very different men is sometimes tentative, sometimes touching, often dangerous--and always captivating. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Critically acclaimed novelist Christopher Bram has written some of his best work about life in the performing arts. In Father of Frankenstein, the basis for the Academy Award-winning movie>Gods and Monsters, it was Hollywood in the thirties and fifties. In>The Notorious Dr. August: His Real Life and Crimes, it was the strange world of Victorian music and spiritualism. Now, in>Lives of the Circus Animals, Bram explores contemporary New York theater, spending several days and nights with a diverse handful of men and women.There is Caleb Doyle, a hot new playwright whose newest work, Chaos Theory, has just bombed. His sister, Jessie, also loves theater but has no outlet for her talents except to work as the personal assistant to British actor Henry Lewse, the Hamlet of his generation, while he does a Broadway musical. Henry loves Shakespeare, money, grass, and boys.Then there's Frank Earp, an ex-actor who courts Jessie and is directing a troupe of acting students in a homemade play. Among the students is Toby Vogler, a nice kid from the Midwest who has a whole other career at night. Toby was once Caleb Doyle's boyfriend.Overseeing this world like an unhappy god is Kenneth Prager, second-string theater critic for the>New York Times.Leaping from one life to another, one day to the next, the novel throws these people together in a serious comedy about love and work and make-believe. Lives of the Circus Animals is a cross between a Mozart opera and a Preston Sturges movie. A look at theater people who are just like everyone else, only more so, it's a comic celebration of how we all strive to stay sane while living in the shadow of those two impostors, success and failure. …

Hardback. Zustand: Good. "Fascinating.fun to read and will be the standard text of the defining era of gay literati." -- Philadelphia Inquirer In the years following World War II a group of gay writers established themselves as major cultural figures in American life. Truman Capote, the enfant terrible, whose finely wrought fiction and nonfiction captured the nation's imagination. Gore Vidal, the wry, withering chronicler of politics, sex, and history. Tennessee Williams, whose powerful plays rocketed him to the top of the American theater. James Baldwin, the harrowingly perceptive novelist and social critic. Christopher Isherwood, the English novelist who became a thoroughly American novelist. And the exuberant Allen Ginsberg, whose poetry defied censorship and exploded minds. Together, their writing introduced America to gay experience and sensibility, and changed our literary culture. But the change was only beginning. A new generation of gay writers followed, taking more risks and writing about their sexuality more openly. Edward Albee brought his prickly iconoclasm to the American theater. Edmund White laid bare his own life in stylized, autobiographical works. Armistead Maupin wove a rich tapestry of the counterculture, queer and straight. Mart Crowley brought gay men's lives out of the closet and onto the stage. And Tony Kushner took them beyond the stage, to the center of American ideas. With authority and humor, Christopher Bram weaves these men's ambitions, affairs, feuds, loves, and appetites into a single sweeping narrative. Chronicling over fifty years of momentous change-from civil rights to Stonewall to AIDS and beyond. Eminent Outlaws is an inspiring, illuminating tale: one that reveals how the lives of these men are crucial to understanding the social and cultural history of the American twentieth century.…

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. An audacious epic of love, clairvoyance, and survival, following an eccentric trio across six decades of a changing America. Christopher Bram tells the story of Augustus Fitzwilliam Boyd, alias Dr. August, a clairvoyant pianist who communes with ghosts, and who finds meaning in his life through a strange love triangle with a righteous ex-slave and nervous white governess. The narrative follows Boyd from a wartime Confederate encampment to the fashionable salons of Europe with an exacting command of historical atmosphere. Bram moves his unlikely companions through Gilded Age brothels and séance circles, chronicling their shifting loyalties across decades of wandering. European resorts and a grand waterfront estate on the Bosphorus surround the fragile household as the novel charts the complicated domestic bargain that binds them together. Spanning the years between the Civil War and the early 1920's, this riveting and ambitious historical novel displays the immense talents of a prodigious, highly esteemed author working at the height of his powers. Spiritualism: Boyd channels unbidden compositions directly through his fingers at the keyboard, mystifying audiences from post-war New York to the grand salons of Europe. Found Family: An ex-slave, an aging governess, and a disgraced pianist construct an unlikely domestic haven across years of foreign exile, raising two children under the shadow of shared secrets. Unreliable Narrator: Looking back from a Harlem apartment in the 1920s, an elderly, blind Dr. August narrates his scandalous past with wry irony, questioning where authentic mediumship ended and calculated performance began. 19th Century: From carting a dead Confederate officer in a makeshift coffin made of an abandoned fishing punt to navigating the rowdy dime museums of Union Square, period detail grounds every stage of the journey. Also by This Author: Gods and Monsters, Lives of the Circus Animals and Exiles in America.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. An audacious epic of love, clairvoyance, and survival, following an eccentric trio across six decades of a changing America. Christopher Bram tells the story of Augustus Fitzwilliam Boyd, alias Dr. August, a clairvoyant pianist who communes with ghosts, and who finds meaning in his life through a strange love triangle with a righteous ex-slave and nervous white governess. The narrative follows Boyd from a wartime Confederate encampment to the fashionable salons of Europe with an exacting command of historical atmosphere. Bram moves his unlikely companions through Gilded Age brothels and séance circles, chronicling their shifting loyalties across decades of wandering. European resorts and a grand waterfront estate on the Bosphorus surround the fragile household as the novel charts the complicated domestic bargain that binds them together. Spanning the years between the Civil War and the early 1920's, this riveting and ambitious historical novel displays the immense talents of a prodigious, highly esteemed author working at the height of his powers. Spiritualism: Boyd channels unbidden compositions directly through his fingers at the keyboard, mystifying audiences from post-war New York to the grand salons of Europe. Found Family: An ex-slave, an aging governess, and a disgraced pianist construct an unlikely domestic haven across years of foreign exile, raising two children under the shadow of shared secrets. Unreliable Narrator: Looking back from a Harlem apartment in the 1920s, an elderly, blind Dr. August narrates his scandalous past with wry irony, questioning where authentic mediumship ended and calculated performance began. 19th Century: From carting a dead Confederate officer in a makeshift coffin made of an abandoned fishing punt to navigating the rowdy dime museums of Union Square, period detail grounds every stage of the journey. Also by This Author: Gods and Monsters, Lives of the Circus Animals and Exiles in America.…

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.