These Things Happen
by Richard Kramer
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Pub Date Nov 07 2012 | Archive Date Mar 06 2014
Description
The story of a modern family, set among Manhattan's high-powered liberal elite, told through an ensemble of endearing voices, in which a teenage boy, having moved from his mother and stepfather's home for a school term to live with his father and his male partner, finds himself at the center of an act of violence that causes everyone to reexamine themselves, their assumptions and attitudes.
Richard Kramer is the Emmy and multiple Peabody award winning writer, director and producer of numerous TV series, including Thirtysomething, My So-called Life, Tales of the City, and Once and Again. His first short story appeared in the New Yorker while he was still an undergraduate at Yale. This is his first novel.
Advance Praise
"Richard Kramer's These Things Happen is a jewel of a book: incisive, funny, wise, and moving. It prompted me, on almost every page, to ask the question I'm most glad to find myself asking of a novel, How did the writer know that?"-Michael Cunningham
"Like the two main characters it so unforgettably etches, Richard Kramer's first novel exemplifies the virtues of both youth and maturity: it manages to be both wise and wide-eyed, sage and sensitive, deeply funny and, in the end, disarmingly touching. The man behind ThirtySomething and My So-Called Life has taken his trademark qualities-the grownup's shrewdness about the way the world works and the adolescent's disarming emotional nakedness-and fashioned from them a very affecting work of fiction."-Daniel Mendelsohn
"There is precious little territory of the male heart into which Kramer does not venture with audacity and tenderness. I closed this book feeling delighted, moved, and oddly privileged to have had such a wise escort on a journey both familiar and utterly foreign."-Julia Glass, author of The Widower's Tale and Three Junes
"Artful, thoughtful and extremely funny, this is a wonderful first novel about artifice and the discovery of true feeling, about the roles we play and what we choose to make of them."-Cathleen Schine
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781609530891 |
| PRICE | $24.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 272 |
