Surprising Myself Christopher Bram Paperback - 432 pages (22 February, 1990) Gay Men's Press; ISBN: 0854491309

Surprising Myself is a brilliantly realised novel by one of the United States' most promising young writers, whose exciting new talent is here brought to a British audience for the first time. Charting the search for domestic and emotional contentment as a gay person in modern-day society, Bram paints a refreshingly frank and detailed portrait of a gay couple building a home, and of the intertwining relationships surrounding his main protagonists, Joel and Corey. His style lifts his characters into an area of impassioned intimacy with the reader, creating a dazzling piece of writing — intriguing, affecting, elegant yet humorous, and above all honest.
"An extremely impressive performance... filled with deft, incisive ironies that are often as funny as they are surprising"
— Christopher Street
"A gifted writer, one who has a fine way with dialogue and can make any confrontation come to life... Bram writes like an angel"
— The Advocate
"Refreshing... This reinvention of the American family — based on friendship, common interests and choice rather than on sacraments and sex — represents a new social arrangement"
— New York Review of Books

Paperback, good condition, shows some signs of it's age