Title: Surprising Myself Author: Christopher Bram Published by: Donald I. Fine, 1987 ISBN: 1-55611-007-3 [hardcover, 424 pages]
In Surprising Myself, Christopher Bram delights and intrigues with a sometimes innocent and dreamlike, sometimes raunchy and wicked, but always entertaining tale sure to win him an instant audience and critical acclaim.Surprising Myself is about relationships. Between a young man and his father. Between the father and his ex-wife. Between the ex-wife and her children. Between the children themselves. And most important, between two young men.
Joel Scherzenlieb is at Camp Wolf when he meets Corey Cobbett. Joel, placed there by his father who regards the camp as a convenient dumping ground for his son, anticipates the worst. Then he meets Corey and his attitude softens. Corey is sensitive, smart, understanding.
He is also gay.
Surprising Myself is their story. Beginning with their initial discovery of each other and moving by a series of deft twists and turns to the novel's moving climax, Christopher Bram evokes with an elegance of style the love that grows between two special people and the adversity they must jointly overcome. It is an affecting portrait not soon to be forgotten.
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