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Jeremy Thrane

A Novel

by Kate Christensen
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From the author of the highly acclaimed In the Drink, a smart and sexy exploration of New York and its customs through the eyes of a disillusioned, yet secretly hopeful, gay man.
Jeremy Thrane is a thirty-five-year-old writer in love with a married man. For years, Jeremy has posed as "archivist" to Ted Masterson, a Hollywood action star. Jeremy maintains Ted's New York brownstone and guards the secret that could destroy his career. But when Ted and his movie-star wife, Giselle, adopt a child and become America's most-photographed family, Jeremy finds himself without a job and, more importantly, bereft of the love of his life.
With the same wit and authenticity that have made her a critical and popular favorite, Kate Christensen chronicles Jeremy's search for a new start as he ventures to every corner of the New York landscape, from watering holes where gossip columnists await an "item" to dives where waiters and busboys are eager to please patrons–especially after their shifts are over. In his spare time, he struggles to finish a novel based on his father's peripatetic life as a fanatical Marxist and turns out sizzling pornography for a one-man enterprise run by an old high school acquaintance. His sister, an up-and-coming rock musician, and his thrice-married, former flower-child mother, who found her true calling as a poet late in life, provide the mixture of criticism and compassion Jeremy has known all his life and now, for the most unexpected reasons, finally learns to appreciate.
A fast-paced and funny social satire, Jeremy Thrane deftly captures the slippery chameleon quality of American identity, the power of youth and beauty, and the complexity of love.
BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Kate Christensen's Blue Plate Special.

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  • Release date

    October 12, 2011

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9780307807380

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9780307807380
      • File size: 2812 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 6, 2001
      Two years after her well-received debut, Christensen (In the Drink) delivers a knockout sophomore effort, once again set against the backdrop of a glitteringly grungy downtown Manhattan. As the novel begins, 35-year-old pretty boy Jeremy Thrane lives in the top -floor apartment of a gorgeous Gramercy Park townhouse otherwise inhabited by Hollywood star Ted Masterson, Ted's even hotter actress wife and their adopted daughter. Jeremy, long Ted's secret lover, has been employed as the actor's "archivist" for years, but his free ride is about to come to an end. Unceremoniously dumped by the media-wary Ted, Jeremy must abandon his apartment and take a thankless
      nine-to-five job; on the bright side, he is finally inspired to finish his decade-in-the-making
      novel, a revenge fantasy based on the life of his deadbeat Marxist father.
      Christensen corrals a flawed cast of characters with a sure and compassionate
      hand, among them Jeremy's mother, a successful poet; his sister, a junior rock star; his best friend, a chic artist addicted to heroin; and a physically repellent gay-porn editor who has been in love with Jeremy since high school. Chistensen's sumptuous prose is both wicked and
      wise, resulting in a smart, sassy urban tale. Her wit is as acerbic as ever, but
      the laugh-out-loud humor of her first novel has been exchanged for something darker and more
      provocative. Young, hip readers will be pleased by this stylish endeavor and
      will agree that Christensen is establishing herself as an edgy chronicler of
      the Naked City and its struggling inhabitants. (Aug.) Forecast:The 20- and 30-something fans Christensen picked up with
      In the Drink will adore her savvy, satiric latest, and get a chance to collect autographs on her three-city author tour.

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