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In Memory of Angel Clare: A Novel
In Memory of Angel Clare: A Novel
In Memory of Angel Clare: A Novel
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In Memory of Angel Clare: A Novel

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A group of worldly New Yorkers inherit a friend’s last lover
A year after the AIDS-related death of filmmaker Clarence Laird, known to friends as Angel Clare, his young boyfriend, Michael, is still in deep mourning. Clarence’s older, sophisticated friends—male and female, gay and straight—find themselves the custodians of Michael, a callow kid they never liked much to begin with. What follows is a dark, intimate comedy about real grief and false grief, misunderstanding, friendship, love, and forgiveness.
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Release dateMay 28, 2013
ISBN9781480424555
In Memory of Angel Clare: A Novel
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Christopher Bram

 Christopher Bram is the author of nine novels, including Father of Frankenstein, which was made into the Academy Award–winning movie Gods and Monsters, starring Ian McKellen. Bram grew up outside of Norfolk, Virginia, where he was a paperboy and an Eagle Scout. He graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1974 and moved to New York City in 1978. In addition to Father of Frankenstein, he has written numerous articles and essays. His most recent book, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America, is a literary history. Bram was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2001, and in 2003, he received Publishing Triangle’s Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. He lives in Greenwich Village and teaches at New York University. 

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    This is well-written, but at such a distance that it's difficult to find many of the characters all that sympathetic. The tangential characters are the ones who readers are able to relate to, and the writing and plot just aren't quite enough to be the strength of the book. As such, though a straightforward read, it was a long read for this particular reading, and difficult to finish. By the time I was nearly done, there was one character who I found particularly sympathetic, and the end was somewhat redeeming, but as I wrote, that was very near the end of the book, long after I would have given up on the novel if I weren't one of those folks who finds it nearly impossible to put a book down. In other words, it's well done, and it's a way to pass the time, but it's probably not one I'd recommend to folks who aren't specifically searching out literature related to AIDS or literature that takes its time to examine a group of friends at large instead of a single character.

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