Christopher Bram, Author . Morrow $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-054253-5
Clever stage satire and compassionate character writing distinguish this heady, humorous New York theater novel by the author of The Notorious Mr. August and Father of Frankenstein (which was made into the Academy Award–winning film Gods and...
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Christopher Bram, Author . Morrow $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-113834-8
Bram uneasily weds religion and the politics of sexual orientation in his tepid eighth novel. Daniel Wexler, 47, and Zachary Knowles, 48, together for 21 years, live in Williamsburg, Va., where Daniel teaches painting at William and Mary College and
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Christopher Bram, Author Dutton Books $17.95 (424p) ISBN 978-1-55611-007-8
A fresh tone, exuberance and light-handed humor mark this first novel about a homosexual's coming of age in Manhattan. We meet Joel Scherzenlieb at Boy Scout camp, where his CIA agent father has left him to work as a counselor for the summer. Joel...
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Christopher Bram, Author William Morrow & Company $26 (512p) ISBN 978-0-688-17569-6
Encompassing dramatic shifts in place and time, from the end of the Civil War to the heyday of Coney Island, this sprawling, splendidly imagined novel dramatizes Victorian age yet eminently familiar dilemmas of race, spirituality and sexual identity
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Christopher Bram, Author Dutton Books $22.5 (409p) ISBN 978-1-55611-231-7
Although Bram places his fourth novel in the Philippines during the Marcos era, he delivers little more than a surface exposure to this potentially explosive setting. Beginning in the 1950s, the narrative follows the 35-year career of Jim Goodall,...
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Christopher Bram, Author Plume Books $13.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-452-26966-8
While earnest and sometimes insightful, Bram's effort to trace a homosexual American foreign-service officer's 35-year career in the Philippines lacks the wit and charm of his previous offerings. (Apr.)
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Christopher Bram, Author Dutton Books $19.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-525-93913-9
In this ingeniously imagined novel, Bram (Hold Tight) makes fiction out of the aged expatriate British filmmaker James Whale's last days. Whale, living in Hollywood and recovering from a minor stroke, finds life grotesquely refracted through his...
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Christopher Bram. Hachette/Twelve, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-446-56313-0
This select series of profiles and literary analyses by the author of Gods and Monsters (turned into an Oscar-winning film) explores with brio the gay temper in American literature, from 1948 to 2000. Segmenting his book into five parts, by decade,...
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Christopher Bram, Author, Christopher Bram, Other Dutton Books $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55611-074-0
The clever premise of this frothy espionage novel by the author of Surprising Myself is that during World War II there was a gay brothel in lower Manhattan that may have been a hangout for Nazi agents (a rumor of its existence sparked the story,...
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Christopher Bram, Author, Christopher Bram, Other Dutton Books $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55611-138-9
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...
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