false 290744 2 With this portrait of a closeted gay movie star's live-in lover, <I>Jeremy Thrane</I> ventures into a largely unexplored subcontinent of literature: the lives and times of hangers-on. Jeremy is 35, unemployed, working on novel, and living in a fabulous townhouse in Gramercy Park. For his entire adult life, he has been discreetly provided for by Ted Masterson, an action-movie star married to an equally famous actress. The novel hinges on a question best phrased metaphorically: What happens when Kato gets booted from the guesthouse? In the opening pages, Ted throws his sexual sidekick out on his ear, and Jeremy finds himself in the unenviable position of learning to create a life in his mid-30s. (It's sort of like a gender-swapping version of those novels, epidemic in the 1970s, about unfulfilled wives who head off to find themselves.)<p> Jeremy realizes he hasn't really noticed the passing of time, and discovers to his shock that he's not the boy he used to be: "Now, on what I was dismayed to learn was the cusp of early middle age, my hair was graying just a little at the temples, my muscles were softening somewhat, and my whole body had widened slightly, had taken on a new maturity that I didn't entirely dislike, but wasn't thrilled with either, because who would be?" The novel follows Jeremy's gentle adventures as he looks for love, an apartment, a job, and a little companionship. This is a grungy, funny Manhattan fable of walk-ups and poisonous ambitions, of family ties and two-faced friends. Kate Christensen brings to Jeremy's story the same mordant wit and social satire that made her first novel, <I>In the Drink</I>, a cult favorite. This one reads like a roman à clef, but probably isn't, which is a compliment to the novel's comical and uncanny verisimilitude. <I>--Claire Dederer</I> 282076 2001 Jeremy Thrane total:85|5:13|4:29|3:32|2:8|1:3| 85 296 151 20 290744 0385720343 9780385720342 77 19 3.48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173455432m/290744.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/290744.Jeremy_Thrane 4 0 false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 09:53:35 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 09:53:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 290744 0385720343 9780385720342 77 19 3.48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173455432m/290744.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/290744.Jeremy_Thrane 4 0 false Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 15:10:18 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 13:53:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 290744 0385720343 9780385720342 77 19 3.48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173455432m/290744.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/290744.Jeremy_Thrane 3 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jul 14 13:20:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 13:21:58 -0700 2009 290744 0385720343 9780385720342 77 19 3.48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173455432m/290744.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/290744.Jeremy_Thrane 1 0 false Mon Jul 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 15:31:45 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 06:52:42 -0700 2009
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