Christopher Bram

Surprising Myself

A Novel

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Seventeen-year-old Joel can't be gay if he's straight After four years of living with relatives in Switzerland, seventeen-year-old Joel Scherzenlieb finds himself in the United States for the summer, working at a Boy Scout camp. There, he meets nineteen-year-old Corey Cobbett, a fellow counselor who's 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.… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4804-2451-7
EAN: 9781480424517
Produktnummer: 31920146
Verlag: Open Road Media
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 424 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 945 KB

Über den Autor

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.