Free Download | Exiles in America | Christopher Bram Novel

I find myself reading Bram's works based on the subject matter, then kicking myself about half way through. He starts off most books with some interesting characters caught in a situation that should make a good story possible and then find myself disappointed when it does not happen. Too much time is spent justifying relationships or perspectives instead of letting the story do this for itself. Two very different couples; two middle aged gay men (Daniel and Zack) and an Iranian man and his Russian wife(Abbas and Elena), meet and a sexual affair between Daniel and Abbas takes place and a friendship between Elena and Zack develops. The first half of the book is basically Elena and Zack telling the reader how 'okay' they are with their spouses fling.

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Free Download | Lives of the Circus Animals | Christopher Bram Novel

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. Most of the male characters are homosexuals and the book definitely has a gay point of view.

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Free Download | Gods and Monsters | Christopher Bram

This novel is reminiscent of such films as SUNSET BOULEVARD and WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE. The story concerns the last days of has-been director James Whale who in his prime had directed the films SHOW BOAT and THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, among other hits. In 1957 he was a virtual recluse in his expensive Hollywood home, despondent after suffering a stoke. His death by drowning in his swimming pool was ruled an accident, but many years later, his former companion made public Whale's suicide note. From this grim material, Christopher Bram has fashioned a sweet and far-from-sentimental love story of Whale and his obsession with his handsome ex-marine gardener. There are a lot of surprises along the way, some of them hilarious, some truly disturbing. Once again Bram intermingles fictional characters with real people. In this volume Elsa Lanchester, Greta Garbo, Charles Laughton, George Cukor, Princess Margaret and Elizabeth Taylor make appearances.

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