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Almost Like Being in Love (novel)
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Wikipedia article
'Almost Like Being in Love' is a 2004 gay-fiction romance novel by author Steve Kluger. Like his previous novel 'Last Days of Summer', 'Almost Like Being in Love' is an epistolary novel; the story is told primarily through diary entries, newspaper clippings, office documents, letters, e-mails, menus, post-it notes and checklists, with only minor reliance on narrative. Kluger uses experiences and people from his life as inspiration for his novels.
The book won the Lambda Literary Award in 2005.
Plot introduction
The book centers around the relationship between two men, Travis and Craig, who meet and fall in love in 1978, during their senior year of high school. Travis is the school nerd, obsessed with musicals and constantly picked on. Craig is the school jock, lauded with the school's Victory Cup for athletic achievement. The two meet on the set of the school's production of 'Brigadoon', and the unlikely couple began a whirlwind romance. However, after their summer together, they part and set off to different colleges. The book moves forward 20 years later, to 1998. Travis and Craig have fallen out of touch, and they both have strong careers and potential suitors. Travis is the first to realize that his first love is his only true one, and he embarks on a cross-country journey, risks his job and enters the great unknown to try to get Craig back.
References
Category:Epistolary novels
Category:Gay male romance novels
Category:2004 novels
Category:Fiction set in 1978
Category:Fiction set in 1998
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