On the Boardwalk

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(74 69 65 1)>A memoir from the writer of BENT with a foreword by Ian McKellen</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(74 69 65 1)>Sherman takes us on a journey through America in the mid twentieth century starting in New Jersey - where he was born in the 1930s to a Jewish immigrant family - ending on Broadway with the premier of his seminal play </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(74 69 65 1)>Bent</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(74 69 65 1)> starring Richard Gere. On route we encounter other famous performers including Meryl Streep Bee Gees Joan Baez but the scene-stealing character is always his father - a charismatic narcissist who might have given Trump a run for his money. We stop off in Woodstock Los Angeles and London - a city Martin would eventually make home; he relays his story with self-deprecating humour as he struggles to make it in theatre with his sexuality and under the shadow of the inheritable disease that killed his mother tragically early - a disease from which he finds himself finally free as he turns forty in the book's closing pages.</span></p><p></p>