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Christopher Bram

    1 de enero de 1952

    Las novelas de Bram abordan temas complejos, reconocidas por su rico estilo y profundas percepciones de la psique humana. Su obra a menudo explora las vidas de artistas y creadores, sumergiendo a los lectores en sus luchas internas y procesos creativos. Con un agudo sentido del detalle y una comprensión de la naturaleza humana, Bram crea personajes que son a la vez vulnerables y resilientes. Su escritura es celebrada por su inteligencia y resonancia emocional.

    Hold Tight
    Surprising Myself
    In Memory of Angel Clare
    Gossip
    El célebre doctor August
    • Anciano y casi ciego, pero con su sentido del humor intacto, el inefable Augustus Fitzwilliam Boyd, enigmático pianista cuyo don excepcional para la música proviene directamente del mundo de los espíritus, desgrana casi sesenta años de recuerdos, desde el final de la Guerra Civil norteamericana hasta 1920, en un periplo que abarca lugares tan dispares como Nueva York, París, Londres y Constantinopla. En su camino se cruzarán Isaac kemp, esclavo y desertor de firmes convicciones religiosas que intentará desesperadamente negar su atracción por él, y miss Alice Pangborn, distinguida institutriz empeñada en salir adelante sin depender de hombre alguno. Los tres, atrapados en un extraño y a veces conflictivo amor triangular, se embarcarán en la insólita peripecia de una vida compartida en la que se toparán con mil y un personajes tan extravagantes como fascinantes, y serán testigos de las transformaciones de un mundo que asiste, atónito, al nacimiento de una nueva sociedad donde términos como homosexualidad, racismo, libertad individual o exilio comienzan a adquirir un nuevo significado

      El célebre doctor August
      3,8
    • Gossip

      • 352 páginas
      • 13 horas de lectura

      Ralph Eckhart meets "Thersites" on the Internet. The manager of a Greenwich Village bookstore and politically to the left, Ralph agrees to an F2F (face-to-face) meeting with Thersites in Washington, D.C., where his friend Nancy writes speeches for a popular woman senator. With his penchant for Shakespearean drama, Ralph should have seen the elements gathering for tragedy...or farce. Thersites proves to be a young, attractive, and enthusiastic lover. He is also Republican, in the closet, right-wing, and the author of a tell-all book that spreads gossip about several Washington women, including a footnote about a lesbian affair between a speechwriter and a "happily married" senator. In a town where rumors can kill a career, such words may be fatal. And despite his passion, Ralph is disturbed by his new lover's politics...and then stunned at being charged with his murder. Christopher Bram joins dark satire with chilling suspense as Ralph is arrested for first-degree homicide and becomes a "cause" in the gay community.

      Gossip
      3,5
    • In Memory of Angel Clare

      • 288 páginas
      • 11 horas de lectura

      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.

      In Memory of Angel Clare
    • Surprising Myself

      • 424 páginas
      • 15 horas de lectura

      Working at a Boy Scout camp as a counselor, Joel Scherzenlieb meets Corey Cobbett, a gay counselor, and becomes aware of his own sexual feelings

      Surprising Myself
    • Hold Tight

      A Novel

      • 288 páginas
      • 11 horas de lectura

      “Nazi intrigue in a homosexual brothel . . . a spy thriller that breaks new ground.”— Kirkus Reviews Hank Fayette, Seaman Second Class, had enlisted in his Texas hometown, used his shore leave to visit a movie house on 42nd Street, and ended up in a gay brothel near Manhattan’s West piers. It was the wrong place to be at the wrong time. When this big, lanky blond with a country boy’s drawl—and a country boy’s hard muscular body—couldn’t fight his way clear of the Shore Patrol who raided the place, he figured he was on his way to the brig or a dishonorable discharge. But in 1942, a few months after Pearl Harbor, the Navy was more interested in capturing spies than in punishing “sex offenders,” and Hank was just the kind of sailor they had in mind. Their offer to Hank was simple: go back to the brothel, work undercover as a prostitute, and risk your life to entrap Nazi spies. This erotic, suspenseful novel captures the big-band feel of New York City in the forties, the intensity of a nation at war, and the passion of men for their country—and for each other. “Entertaining, sexy, and touching . . .”—Stephen McCauley “Strong, action-filled . . . a tightly knit plot . . . a very engaging story about murder and intrigue that is hard to put down.”— Lambda Rising Book Report

      Hold Tight