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Henry Henry Hardcover – April 16, 2024

by Allen Bratton (Author)
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"Bratton’s electric debut novel transforms Shakespeare into a modern, queer drama that’s as bawdy as it’s sharp." —New York Times

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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"Henry Henry is carnal and precise, a challenging taxonomy of familial and personal failure that Bratton renders without tidiness or judgment.” —Raven Leilani, author of Luster

“Allen Bratton's Henry Henry brilliantly highlights the tension between history and modernity, power and freedom, and fathers and sons. A darkly humorous examination of the weight of privilege packed with drugs, dicks, Catholicism, cigarettes, and, yes, love— Henry Henry is a sharply-written party you don't want to miss.” —Isaac Fitzgerald, author of Dirtbag Massachusetts

“Not only is Henry Henry one of the first books of the year that has inspired an audible gasp, it’s also the years finest debut. It has the power to reinvigorate literature with the type of daring prose that is becoming much too rare.” —Jeremy O. Harris, playwright of Slave Play

"At times witty and at others harrowing, Bratton’s book memorably explores the unexpected depths of its protagonist. This novel revisits classic literature but never feels beholden to it." —Kirkus, Starred Review

"Darkly witty... a chronicle of survival and healing from generational trauma." —Publishers Weekly

"Bratton’s electric debut novel transforms Shakespeare into a modern, queer drama that’s as bawdy as it’s sharp." —New York Times

"To say that Henry Henry offers a vision of queer healing as well as queer suffering is not to say that Hal heals, but that he begins to see that disinheriting the past may be possible. It’s a fragile possibility, but one that offers a kind of hope—not only to Hal, but also to the worst of us sinners." —Cleveland Review of Books

About the Author

Allen Bratton was raised in Alexandria, Virginia. He’s since spent time in West Texas, New York City, London, Vancouver, and Dublin. Henry Henry is his first novel.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Unnamed Press (April 16, 2024)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 300 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 196188402X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1961884021
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1 x 9.25 inches
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natalia sarram
4.0 out of 5 stars Tragic, Traumatic, and Terribly Heartbreaking
Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2024
Brandon Taylor put the spotlight on this book for me a year ago when he claimed it was, "one of the finest written novels I have ever read."

Obviously, I had to pick it up and devour it. Henry Henry is a retelling (modern reimagining) of Shakespeare's Henriad, and boy, does it deliver on both the prose and the trauma! A stunning character exploration of "poor little rich boy" Hal Lancaster and his tendencies and desires toward destruction within the midst of the disgusting British high society. Bratton's ability to make the most precise observations and remarks on the English upper class was impeccable and so finely placed that if you didn't recognize what he was commenting on, it was easy to miss. Every character was despicable and tragic and my heart broke for most of them. In an era of superfluous, mediocre Shakespeare retellings, this is everything that an author who wants to match Shakespeare in theme and characterization should attempt to write. The voice was utterly unique and still very reflective of Martin Amis and Evelyn Waugh. This was a book that I had to read in one sitting because I thought that if I were to put it down, I wouldn't have the bravery or stomach to pick it up again. A stellar recommendation from Brandon Taylor, a triumph of Allen Bratton, and a novel worthy of its gorgeous cover.

I'm a lifelong lover of Nancy Mitford and her crazy family's history and this felt like reading another engrossing and horrifying biography of a rich, mad English family.
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Kera Marie
5.0 out of 5 stars This book wrecked me emotionally
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2024
Ugh, I'm a mess after reading this. I seriously didn't really know too much of what I was getting into. I saw the fabulous cover, skimmed the synopsis... and just dove in. This is supposed to be a queer re-imagining of Shakespeare's Henriad, but because I am not familiar with it, I can't speak to that aspect.

Catholic, gay, and eldest son of a duke, Hal is a 22 year old who is so clearly lost that it broke me. He spends his nights with booze and drugs, his days recovering only to repeat the cycle. Unashamed in his debauchery he holds onto shame for something else. So much so that he seems to feel unworthy of love. Even when it is staring him in the face...

Hal was a very charismatic character, making light of certain situations, he comes undone in private and oh my god, what a realistic portrayal of shame and impulse. I will be thinking of this book for a very long time!
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Brandon Whitfeld
3.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful writing that goes nowhere...
Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2024
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I think it's an ambitious thing to take on The Henriad, and sort of transpose these characters to modern day Britain. It's a clever concept, and Bratton's writing is crystalline. There's a haunting quality to the text, and I felt very much for Hal, and his coke habit, and all the trauma he endured, and in a twist, that's druggy and violent in itself, that he is *still* enduring at 22.

But somehow, the narrative kept losing me. Hal and Henry and Harry and everyone of their ilk, I just get kept getting lost in the maeslstrom of what I think was meant to be sharp-eyed commentery. I had to google another review to figure out who Richard was, it was never made clear to me in the text. With everyone bemoaning the past, it was hard to latch on to a central conflict nailed down into the present, and thus we have a lot of characters spinning their wheels, phantasmic, daydreaming, wandering through a plot-less book like the ghosts they think they keep seeing. It just ultimately, structurally collapsed for me.

This is Bratton's debut, and it felt very MFA debut-ish, lots of writing class discussions, but under-edited. The talent is there though, so I might be curious to see what Bratton does next. Although I might not...
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Kaysey
4.0 out of 5 stars Messyyyyyyy
Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2024
3.5 stars with lots of TW to look into. I usually read sad, messy girl litfic but love that this is a queery messy boy litfic! It was a little long for my taste and there were some uncomfy parts. It was hard for me to relate oftentimes but I still enjoyed our unlikable MMC. I felt really bad for Hal at times and at other times I'm like "what the heck are you doing stop!" There were also some times that this gave me some serious Saltburn vibes. I think this will find its people and will be a favorite for many.
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Beth
5.0 out of 5 stars Cringeworthy
Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2024
Henry Henry is splendid. Bratton builds a beautiful world of mid-aughts Britain, a protagonist who is deeply alone, and a supporting cast of characters that, well, only Shakespeare himself could rival.

Reading Henry Henry was like slipping into a pond for a midnight swim in the summertime, but the water is far too cold and the ground far too mucky. Everything about this book made me cringe. But I couldn't put it down. I think this novel forces you to take it seriously, from the style of prose to how sadly unlikeable nearly every character is.

I would recommend Henry Henry to all readers who loved Saltburn or any of Brandon Taylor's novels.
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Nico
3.0 out of 5 stars Do not be deceived by the charming cover art!
Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2024
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Despite the pretty aristo on the cover, this is no Red, White and Royal Blue or Playing the Palace. It is very dark, and the ending left me unsatisfied. Some of the conflicts/abuses/existential crises drawn out over the course of the book should have been addressed by the end. Brought out into the open, or vengeance taken, or confession made - anything! Or at least the romance plot could have been resolved. End result of the aforementioned lack of payoff to simmering tensions is a book that reads as if written by Hanya Yanigahara in an alternate universe in which she was afraid of outright drama or actual conflict.
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S. F.
1.0 out of 5 stars only made it 2/3 of the way through …maybe it got good?
Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2024
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despicable main character, unbelievable love interest, casual and not credible incest subplot, uninteresting sex and slow. seemingly plotless. based on Shakespeare but without the drama or tension of shakespeare. one of many new gay novels where the main character appears to be an alcoholic and or drug addict and repetitive drinking and snorting chews up a lot of ink, portrayals which seem to be this era’s hitchcock’s “rope” or “boys in the band”. this writer has evident talent however and i hope he writes his second novel about his own life and experience (unless it’s about heavy drinking and drug use , which is just really boring). Also, this is one of a series of books getting notable mentions in the NYT. to them i say: please read the novel, not the publisher’s blurbs.
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