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Confort et joie

Ford McKinney leads a charmed life: he's a young doctor possessing good looks, good breeding and money. He comes from an old Savannah family where his parents, attentive to his future, focus their energies on finding their son--their golden boy--a girl to marry. But how charmed is this life when Ford's own heart suspects that he is not meant to spend his life with a woman? His suspicions are confirmed when he meets Dan Crell. Dan is a quiet man with a great voice. Behind the tempered facade of the shy hospital administrator is a singer who can transform a room with his soaring voice, leaving his listeners in awe and reverence. Ford catches one such Christmas concert and his life is never quite the same; he is touched in a place he keeps hidden, forbidden. When Ford and Dan begin to explore the limits of their relationship, Dan's own secrets are exposed--and his mysterious and painful childhood returns to haunt him. In Comfort & Joy, Jim Grimsley finds a marriage between the stark and stunning pain of his prize-winning Winter Birds and the passion of critically acclaimed Dream Boy. In this, his fourth novel, he considers pressing questions. How does a man reconcile the child he was raised to be with the man that he truly is? What happens when an adult has to choose between his parents and a lover?

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  • "Comfort and joy"@en
  • "Comfort and joy"
  • "Neḥamah ṿe-osher"

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  • "Ford McKinney leads a charmed life: he's a young doctor possessing good looks, good breeding and money. He comes from an old Savannah family where his parents, attentive to his future, focus their energies on finding their son--their golden boy--a girl to marry. But how charmed is this life when Ford's own heart suspects that he is not meant to spend his life with a woman? His suspicions are confirmed when he meets Dan Crell. Dan is a quiet man with a great voice. Behind the tempered facade of the shy hospital administrator is a singer who can transform a room with his soaring voice, leaving his listeners in awe and reverence. Ford catches one such Christmas concert and his life is never quite the same; he is touched in a place he keeps hidden, forbidden. When Ford and Dan begin to explore the limits of their relationship, Dan's own secrets are exposed--and his mysterious and painful childhood returns to haunt him. In Comfort & Joy, Jim Grimsley finds a marriage between the stark and stunning pain of his prize-winning Winter Birds and the passion of critically acclaimed Dream Boy. In this, his fourth novel, he considers pressing questions. How does a man reconcile the child he was raised to be with the man that he truly is? What happens when an adult has to choose between his parents and a lover?"@en
  • "A romance between two men who come from different social classes. One is a doctor from an old Savannah family, the other's family originates from the backwoods of North Carolina, on top of which he is HIV positive."
  • "A romance between two Southern gay men who come from different social classes: one is a doctor from an old Savannah family, who's never come out to his family; the other's mother hails from the backwoods of North Carolina, yet she is accepting of her HIV-positive son and only wants him to be happy. Everything comes together--or apart--one Christmas."@en
  • "A romance between two Southern gay men who come from different social classes: one is a doctor from an old Savannah family, who's never come out to his family; the other's mother hails from the backwoods of North Carolina, yet she is accepting of her HIV-positive son and only wants him to be happy. Everything comes together--or apart--one Christmas."
  • "A romance between two homosexuals who come from a different class. One is a doctor from an old Savannah family, the other's family originates from the backwoods of North Carolina, on top of which he is HIV positive."
  • "Un couple d'hommes apprend à affronter les difficultés du quotidien, ainsi que le regard de leur famille respective et des autres."
  • "In Jim Grimsleys zweitem Roman begegnen wir dem kleinen Danny wieder: Dan Crell ist jetzt dreissig, lebt in Atlanta und arbeitet in der Verwaltung des grossen Grady-Hospitals. Dan ist ein freundlicher Mann geworden, aber es ist schwer an ihn heranzukommen. Als er und Ford McKinney, ein Arzt des Krankenhauses, sich ineinander verlieben, will er seinem Glück kaum trauen. Ford kämpft darum, Dans Vertrauen zu gewinnen, während er selbst mit seinem Coming-out gegenüber Kollegen und Familie unter Druck gerät. Der Roman spielt Weihnachten, bei Dans Mutter und ihrem zweiten Mann in North Carolina: Zum Fest der Liebe bringt der Sohn seinen Geliebten mit nach Hause. "Hier spricht Amerika mit einer Stimme, die bei uns selten vernommen wird." (Der Tagesspiegel) Jim Grimsleys moderne Südstaaten-Trilogie als E-Books in der Edition diá Wintervögel ISBN 9-783-86034-511-5 Das Leben zwischen den Sternen ISBN 9-783-86034-512-2 Dreamboy ISBN 9-783-86034-513-9 Jim Grimsley, geb. 1955 in Pollocksville, North Carolina, schreibt Prosa und Theater. Seit den 80er-Jahren entstanden zahlreiche Theaterstücke (veröffentlicht im Sammelband "Mr. Universe and Other Plays", Algonquin Books 1998), seit den 90er-Jahren schrieb er, nach seinem aufsehenerregenden Debüt "Wintervögel", sechs Romane, zuletzt "Forgiveness" (University of Texas Press 2007) und den Erzählband "Jesus Is Sending You This Message" (Alyson Books, 2008), ausserdem drei Fantasyromane (2000-2006). Werke von Grimsley wurden ins Deutsche, Französische, Spanische, Portugiesische, Niederländische, Hebräische und Japanische übersetzt. Zu den zahlreichen Literatur- und Theaterpreisen, die er in den USA und Europa erhielt, gehören vor allem der Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Writers Award für sein Gesamtwerk (1997) und der Academy Award in Literature von der American Academy of Arts and Letters (2005). Jim Grimsley lebt seit Langem in Atlanta, Georgia, und unterrichtet Creative Writing an der dortigen Emory University."

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  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Erzählende Literatur"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Christmas stories"@en
  • "Christmas stories"
  • "Electronic books"

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  • "Stille nacht"
  • "Leben zwischen den Sternen Roman"
  • "Das Leben zwischen den Sternen : comfort and joy"
  • "Das Leben zwischen den Sternen [Roman]"
  • "Das Leben zwischen den Sternen [Roman] = comfort and joy"
  • "Das Leben zwischen den Sternen Roman"
  • "Neḥamah ṿa-osher"
  • "Das Leben zwischen den Sternen : Roman"
  • "Das Leben zwischen den Sternen"
  • "Confort et joie"@en
  • "Confort et joie"
  • "<&gt"@he
  • "Comfort & joy a novel"
  • "Comfort & Joy"@en
  • "Comfort & joy a novel"@en
  • "Comfort & joy : a novel"
  • "Un largo camino"@es
  • "Un largo camino"
  • "Das Leben zwischen den Sternen : [Roman] = comfort and joy"
  • "נחמה ואושר"

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