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Can I read Lives of the circus animals : a novel on EtoBox?
Lives of the circus animals : a novel by Bram, Christopher is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Lives of the circus animals : a novel about?
Critically acclaimed novelist Christopher Bram has written some of his best work about life in the performing arts. In Father of Frankenstein, the basis for the Academy Award-winning movie Gods and Monsters, it was Hollywood in the thirties and fifties. In The Notorious Dr. August: His Real Life and Crimes, it was the strange world of Victorian music and spiritualism. Now, in Lives of the Circus Animals, Bram explores contemporary New York theater, spending several days and nights with a diverse handful of men and women. There is Caleb Doyle, a hot new playwright whose newest work, Chaos Theory, has just bombed. His sister, Jessie, also loves theater but has no outlet for her talents except to work as the personal assistant to British actor Henry Lewse, "the Hamlet of his generation," while he does a Broadway musical. Henry loves Shakespeare, money, grass, and boys. Then there's Frank Earp, an ex-actor who courts Jessie and is directing a troupe of acting students in a homemade play. Among the students is Toby Vogler, a nice kid from the Midwest who has a whole other career at night. Toby was once Caleb Doyle's boyfriend. Overseeing this world like an unhappy god is Kenneth Prager,
Who reads Lives of the circus animals : a novel?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Bram, Christopher
- Publisher
- William Morrow
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780061341878
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Science Fiction, Romance
- Rating
- 3.51 / 5 (246 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14