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Praise for The Rain May Pass

"Alan Shayne shares his life in such great visual style, with self-awareness, warmth, deep humor, and pain…a great read! Don't miss it."

-Linda Lavin, Broadway, film, and television star

"I loved The Rain May Pass. I savored every page. I felt like it was so heartfelt and honest that it broke my heart. With truthfulness and dignity, it captured and explored ageless virtues, failures, self-doubts, anxieties and other challenges that add up the bricks that construct a life." -Rex Reed, renowned film critic

"Alan Shayne has written a tender and intimate memoir that moves in elegant prose from an affair with an older man that rescued him from unbearable loneliness as a teenager to hard won success on Broadway and in Hollywood. All in all, this is a warm, frank coming of age - and coming out - story, against tremendous odds." -James Greenfield, former assistant managing editor, The New York Times

THE RAIN MAY PASS

By Alan Shayne

Before marriage equality, before Will & Grace and Modern Family, before the AIDs crisis, before Stonewall, discovering your identity as a gay man was a delicate and even hazardous journey. For Alan Shayne, teetering on the edge of manhood and the Second World War, his summer of self-discovery unfolds in his warm and tender coming-of-age memoir, THE RAIN MAY PASS (Rand-Smith Publishing; September 15, 2020). It takes us on his journey into adulthood with the kind of clarity and illumination one would expect from the renowned actor, casting director, producer and former president of Warner Brothers Television.

America is on the brink of World War II when teenage Alan Shayne begins an August exile with a cold and distant grandmother on Cape Cod. Alan feels misunderstood by his parents, ignored by his older brother, and overwhelmed by his evolving sexuality and his complete lack of knowledge of how to handle it. A chance meeting with an intelligent and attractive older man who treats him like an equal will tilt his world on its axis and open him up to previously unimagined possibilities.

Chance meetings can have effects that ripple throughout our lives, and Shayne shares how his romance inspired him to pursue acting and a career in entertainment, all the time wondering-whatever became of his first love?

ALAN SHAYNE began his career as an actor on Broadway and became a well-known casting director of TV and films such as All the President's Men. He was the President of Warner Brothers Television for many years, shepherding hit shows such as Alice, Night Court, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Wonder Woman, and Growing Pains. After leaving Warner Brothers, he produced TV specials and was nominated for an Emmy for producing the miniseries The Bourne Identity with Richard Chamberlain. He also wrote Double Life: A Love Story with his partner, Norman Sunshine.

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