Set in New York between 1955 and 1972, a funny and tender story of racism, sexual love and of feeling outcast in America. Sonia and her black lover move between two worlds and find they belong in neither. 'In Brandmark's brief, intense novel, the passion and guilt of two eras crystallize in exact and compelling language. History, personal and public, condenses here into flashes of Manhattan lightning.' -The Independent

The Angry Gods

Literature & Fiction

Brandmark, Wendy

United States

Dewi Lewis Publishing

Fiction. THE STRAY AMERICAN beautifully captures the sense of rootlessness and search for identity. Set in 2003, Larry Greenberg escapes from his corporate law job in Boston to teach in a seedy American college near London's Waterloo Station. He lives alone in Wimbledon, and his British lovers want him out of their beds before the morning. Then he meets Carla who lets him stay the night, but who has to face her own demons. His search for companionship takes him to the Un-Americans, a tiny group of disaffected expatriate Americans. Though repelled by these eccentrics, he stays for Devorah, a dancer whose radical politics he tries to ignore. He has always been rootless, unwilling to commit himself to a job or woman or cause. If he grows up, must he shed his wings? Is he condemned to forever consider himself to be an outsider? Follow Larry, a flawed but engaging character, on his journey in search of a soul mate and a sense of purpose.

The Stray American

Holland Park Press

Fiction. HE RUNS THE MOON is a collection of atmospheric stories of life in the rundown Capitol Hill area of Denver, the Bronx and Boston during the 1950s, 60s and 70s. Brandmark, a great storyteller in the American tradition, draws you in. Take the Denver stories which form a narrative of a Gothic city populated by people who feel they don't quite belong. In one story creative writing students are all secretly in love with their professor but does he register them at all?  Figures from the 'old world' haunt the children and adults in the Jewish community of New York City. A troubled granny with a head that is bothering her, and the 'witch' in the basement flat, who has dark marks on her arm.  In the Boston tales characters piece together dreams from the fragments of their lives. Be transported to the occupational hazards of sharing rooms in a dull green clapboard house which seemed to pitch and heave.

He Runs the Moon, Tales from the Cities

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The Angry Gods

The Stray American

He Runs the Moon, Tales from the Cities