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Jeremy Thrane
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...more
Paperback, 320 pages
Published
June 11th 2002
by Anchor
(first published 2001)
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I was surprised at how much I liked Jeremy Thrane. Protagonist Jeremy Thrane can be snobby, childish, and immature... but I loved having the chance to be a part of his world. Kate Christensen's characterization is incredible -- I enjoyed getting to know Jeremy's eccentric circle of family and friends. I highly recommend this book!
I enjoyed this book. Kate Christensen's characters are prickly but funny and believable. She sweeps you up into their daily lives and emotional inner dialogues in a funny and yet not overly self-indulgent way. Though they may be self obsessed, they are also self critical and embrace their quirks, damaging self destructive behaviours and foibles as well as their charms. Jeremy Thrane is a vain superficial seeming gay guy living in NYC yet he looks out at the world with an intelligent cynical but ...more
Good book. Jeremy has basically been on hold for the last 10 years. He has been the kept lover of a famous movie star that leads a double life as a happily married man with a child. That comes to an end-the movie star has fallen in love with his "straight life" and doesn't want to take any chances...plus the relationship has probably run it's course. Now that Jeremy is on his own and must figure out how to support himself and basically take care of himself the story begins. He who ...more
It is really hard to like the main character of this book – Jeremy Thrane – a thirty something boy-toy who feels entitled to live the easy life and accept little or no responsibility for the choices he makes in his life. However, because the book is actually very well written and because Jeremy evolves, rather painfully into a responsible and caring adult during its course – you actually feel badly when the book is over – because you’d actually like to spend more time with the new and improved ...more
In an interview, Christensen admitted that Jeremy Thrane was the character most like herself so far - I guessed that as I was reading it - he is very likable. I have read so many of her books now I see the common themes - art, music, gay and straight romance, New York, humor, family relationships, shrinks, drinking...lots of drinking....
I like her stuff.
I like her stuff.
Just read this for my book club book and I really enjoyed it! I love Kate Christensen's writing style and voice--her characters were funny and interesting and even the "fringe" characters were a little deeper than the usual. I thought the observations and opinions that the characters expressed throughout the book seemed so "real life" and realistic--whether I agreed with them or not, I enjoyed their views, expression and quirks.
My friend Carin said Kate's other ...more
My friend Carin said Kate's other ...more
Love Kate Christensen - want to be her when I grow up. Not as seamless as "The Great Man" but still very interesting - she has an excellent gauge for what is fascinating and fascinatingly mundane. She also likens herself to the title character, a gay man, and I totally relate....
p. 267: "But, said a louder and more compelling voice, maybe my book wasn't good at all; maybe it was just the kind of pretentious, overwritten thing I most deplored. No, said the smaller voice; it couldn't be."
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that little inner dialog is the author's more than the character's. And this book is pretentious and overwritten. I certainly deplored it.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that little inner dialog is the author's more than the character's. And this book is pretentious and overwritten. I certainly deplored it.
Another score for Kate Christensen. Sometimes she goes on a little too long about something, but this woman can write, has a wonderful wit, and does the most extraordinary job with male narrators. Jeremy cracked me up.
This book is well-written, entertaining, yet deeply annoying. I have discovered that I find books about writers - especially New York City writers who take themselves very seriously - to be infuriating. However, On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the very annoying Emperor's Children, this book only rates a 2 on the annoyance scale.
A sign of a great author that I can identify with a misanthropic gay man living in New York? It all about the journey, even when the characters don't physically travel more than a few city blocks.
i read this because i had enjoyed "the epicure's lament" by same author. totally different as it is about a slightly older gay man and his family, life and work. not a bad read once i got into it.
Simone Lehmann
added it
Lighter than her usual writing, obviously an earlier book (her writing isn't as polished as it is in The Epicure's Lament), but entertaining, nonetheless.
Now I have officially read everything Kate Christensen has written, which means she needs to get busy and write some more, fast! While this was my least favorite of her books, it is still quite good. Gay male life in NYC is far from my personal experience, but her characters are all so finely realized that I felt I could follow any one of them off the page and into his/her own story. There's not a lot of action in this book, but quite a lot of personal journeying is done by several characters. I...more
I am a big Kate Christensen fan. This one did not disappoint, but did not like it quite as well as a few of her other novels.
Had to be the crankiest character ever -- which I ended up loving.
I liked the story, just didn't like the main character
this book almost completely sucked. no offense.
good summer read
another weird and funny christensen novel. i loved this one, but not quite as well as epicure's lament. it was almost completely plot-free. how did it ever get published? and yet i kind of liked that about it -- enabled me to really luxuriate in the character's odd life and the author's wonderfully inventive and precise language. didn't quite buy the happily-ever-after ending (though i adore the scene where he cleans his room/psyche).
A pleasant, if slightly odd novel, with a very real, and flawed main character. Jeremy Thrane is a kept man--the mistress? master? what's the corresponding word?--of a successful actor who is both closted and married. When it all falls apart, he has to reinvent himself rather late in life. Jeremy is smug, privileged, and would probably be off-putting in real life, but somehow he ends up being endearing and interesting.
There might be too many characters, and outside of just a few heated conversations, nothing really happens, but I'm still really enjoying this one. The narrator-protagonist Jeremy is a well-mixed cocktail of sympathetic and unlikable, so following him around NYC after he gets dumped is usually fun.
The second of Kate Christiansen's "loser lit" books features a gay man in New York City coping with the his Hollywood star boyfriend's decision to break up with him. Many of Kate Christensen's excellent turns of phrase, but also in my opinion her weakest book.
I should have read a different Kate Christensen book. I think I picked the worst one.
Homeboy gets dumped and has to get a job. Fun scene drinking vodka at Brighton Beach.
Homeboy gets dumped and has to get a job. Fun scene drinking vodka at Brighton Beach.
got this book to "review" - it introduced me to Kate Christensen - she's a great writer. not for the sexually conservative but a great read
Decently written book. Sort of a slice of life regarding one main character. Nothing exciting really happened.
This book is underrated. Please add it to your bookshelves. Laugh-out-loud fun and great writing—sublime.
This book is witty urban satire, just like we like.
Drivel.
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Kate Christensen is the author of the novels In the Drink, Jeremy Thrane, and The Epicure's Lament. Her essays and articles have appeared in various publications, including Salon, Mademoiselle, The Hartford Courant, Elle, and the bestselling anthology The Bitch in the House. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband.
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