Al glides easily between the two worlds until these worlds begin to collide.Ĭameo appearances are made by Walter Liverace, Ethel Merman, Tallulah Bankhead and others.Īmazon (Kindle) | Amazon (Paperback) | Barnes & Noble Praise"… captures the fear, excitement, and eroticism of a young lesbian's awakening in the the 1940s." - Kirkus Reviews
Juliana is a sexual risk-taker who easily reels in the mesmerized Al.Īl is increasingly pulled into a secret gay underworld of men who wear dresses and women who smoke cigars, while her childhood friends continue in their “normal” lives. Al is instantly drawn to her and seeks her out. He invites them to a nightclub where Al hears Juliana, the glamorous, perpetually-on-the-brink-of stardom singer, for the first time. Hartwell III, a failed nightclub owner and Broadway producer, who, according to Al, looks a little like Clark Gable. On the kids’ first day in New York City, they meet Maxwell P. It’s 1941 and Alice “Al” Huffman comes from the potato fields of Long Island with her beau, her best girlfriend and her girlfriend’s beau to make it on the Broadway stage only to find she has no talent. JULIANA is the story of dreams, the dreams of two women who randomly, inevitably cross paths, of stage stardom and soulful songs amid the deceptions required in a prewar 1941 New York City, where love was presumed to be straight, and destiny was supposed to be written in the stars.
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