Ebook {Epub PDF} These Things Happen by Richard Kramer

 · These Things Happen. Richard Kramer. • 8 Ratings; $; $; Publisher Description. A domestic story told in numerous original and endearing voices. The story opens with Wesley, a tenth grader, and involves his two sets of parents (the mom and her second husband, a very thoughtful doctor; and the father who has become a major gay /5(8).  · Find These Things Happen by Kramer, Richard at Biblio. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers. These Things Happen is Richard Kramer’s first novel, but he is no novice. This is a well-measured and mature debut.”—New York Journal of Books “Emotionally resonant The humanity and love between two people thrown together by circumstance is Kramer’s triumph” - Publishers Weekly.

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These Things Happen. Richard Kramer. • 8 Ratings; $; $; Publisher Description. A domestic story told in numerous original and endearing voices. The. These Things Happen is a big little book. A big little funny book. Two days, a handful of characters, a school, a restaurant, a cramped Manhattan apartment and a roof. We take a peek and Kramer opens up the world. The skinny: Wesley, a sixteen-year old, is living with his gay dad and his long-term partner, George, as a way to get closer to his dad. These Things Happen is told in the present tense, mostly from multiple first person perspectives. Kramer’s experience as a screenwriter (ThirtySomething, My So-Called Life) serves him well in differentiating the nuances of one character’s voice from another. No one but Ben, Wesley’s stepfather through his mother’s marriage, could begin his chapter with these words arranged in this grammatical structure: “Professionally, at least, I’m a symbolic man and only because of my field.