The author of Henry Henry comes to DC on Thurs., Apr. 18th, at 7 p.m.!
Loyalty is very excited to welcome Allen Bratton and Rabih Alameddine to celebrate Henry Henry! **This event is free to attend, but registration is required** You can purchase the book from Loyalty below or in-person during the event! Email [email protected] with questions.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
LAUGH NOW. CRY LATER.
“Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere...”
It’s London, 2014, and Hal Lancaster, son and heir of Henry, Duke of Lancaster, is in a holding pattern: his mother is dead, his father is dying or remarrying or both, his siblings are fighting, his internship is pointless, and nobody will leave him alone.
Everything is as it should be and yet nothing is right. Over the course of a year of partying, drinking, and flirting to dubious consequence, Hal is tested by brutal family legacies, Catholic guilt, and the terrifying possibility of being loved. All of which is complicated by a pattern of abuse that threatens to chase Hal into adulthood. The House of Lancaster will never be the same.
Crackling with intelligence and wit, Henry Henry is a brilliant recasting of the Henriad in which Hal Lancaster is a queer protagonist for a new era. Allen Bratton arrives as a successor to Waugh and St. Aubyn with this lush, stylish novel of family, legacy, and what it means to be alive today.
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