Full name: Jeremy Thrane: A Novel

Author: Kate Christensen Year: 2001 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780385720342 0385720343

Jeremy Thrane seems to have everything. As the long-time boyfriend of the handsome (but deeply closeted) movie star Ted Masterson, he lives rent-free in a beautiful apartment on the top floor of Ted's Manhattan brownstone and has an easy job that gives him plenty of time to read books and write his novel. When an influential gossip columnist overhears Jeremy talking about Ted, Jeremy's perfect world begins to crumble: in just a few hours Ted asks him to leave. Although Ted says he needs to spend more time with his wife and daughter, Jeremy suspects another man is involved. With little more than his books, his sprawling manuscript, and his fickle little bird Juanita, Jeremy finds that he needs to re-connect with the eccentric family whose love he has taken for granted, and determine which of his friends have his true well-being in mind. In a dizzying world of art galleries, rock clubs, trendy restaurants, casual sex, dry wit, and drier martinis, Jeremy Thrane must finally figure out what it means to grow up and fall in love. Similar books: The Weekend by Peter Cameron Everybody Rise by Stephanie Clifford The Man of the House by Stephen McCauley Alternatives to Sex by Stephen McCauley The Salt Point by Paul Russell The Page Turner by David Leavitt The Family of Max Desir by Robert Ferro Uncle Max by Chris Kenry In Awe by Scott Heim Sucking Sherbet Lemons by Michael Carson Kapitoil by Teddy Wayne Gossip by Beth Gutcheon In the City of Shy Hunters by Tom Spanbauer Father of Frankenstein by Christopher Bram Frisk by Dennis Cooper Take Me With You by Catherine Ryan Hyde Empire Falls by Richard Russo Anne of Windy Poplars by Lucy Maud Montgomery The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson