John Rechy: The Coming of the Night

USA 2000, 256 pp., brochure, € 12.95
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Publishers Group West
John Rechy's novel »The Coming of the Night« is a return to the themes and scenes of his classic, best-selling »City of Night« and a bittersweet memorial to a lost world - gay Los Angeles in the moment before AIDS. It is 1981, a summer night, and an unscripted ritual is about to take place. Young, beautiful Jesse is celebrating ... Weiterlesen

Larry Kramer: Faggots

USA 2000, 365 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Larry Kramer's »Faggots« has been in print since its original publication in 1978 and has become one of the best-selling novels about gay life ever written. The book is a fierce satire of the gay ghetto and a touching story of one man's desperate search for love there, and reading it today is a fascinating look at how much, and ... Weiterlesen

Armistead Maupin: The Night Listener

USA 2000, 365 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Gabriel Noone is a writer whose late night radio stories have brought him into the homes of millions. Noone is in the midst of a painful separation from his lover of ten years when a publisher sends him proofs of a remarkable book: the memoir of a sickly thirteen-year-old boy who suffered horrific sexual abuse at the hands of his ... Weiterlesen

Tom Spanbauer: The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon

USA 2000, 368 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Set against the harsh reality of an unforgiving landscape and culture, »The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon« provides a vision of the Old West unlike anything seen before. The narrator, Shed, is one of the most memorable characters in contemporary fiction: a half-Indian gay boy who lives and works at the Indian Head Hotel in the tiny ... Weiterlesen

Chris Adrian: Gob's Grief

USA 2000, 387 pp., pb., € 19.95
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»Gob's Grief« recounts the lives of Gob and Tomo Woodhull, fictional twin sons of the real Victoria Woodhull, the 19th-century proto-feminist. In August of 1863, Tomo, who is 11 years old, runs off to the Civil War and dies in his first battle. Gob grows up in a profound state of grief, and by the time that he's an adult ... Weiterlesen

James Baldwin: Giovanni's Room

USA 2000, 159 pp., pb., € 14.95
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Penguin USA
Baldwin's haunting and controversial second novel is his most sustained treatment of sexuality, and a classic of gay literature. In a 1950s Paris swarming with expatriates and characterized by dangerous liaisons and hidden violence, an American finds himself unable to repress his impulses, despite his determination to live the conventional life he envisions for himself. After meeting and proposing to ... Weiterlesen

Jean Genet: Wunder der Rose

Dt. v. Manfred Unruh. D 2000, 538 S., geb., € 39.00
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Merlin-Verlag - Genet Werke in Einzelbänden 2
Zweiter früher Roman Jean Genets, in dem er seine Kindheit in der berüchtigten Erziehungsanstalt Mettray beschreibt.

Jean Genet: Das Totenfest

Dt. v. Marion Luckow. D 2000, 436 S., geb., € 25.20
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Merlin-Verlag - Genet Werke in Einzelbänden 3
Während im Sommer 1944 die amerikanischen Truppen auf Paris vorrücken, entfesselt die Resistance den Aufstand gegen die deutschen Besatzungen. Auf den Dächern der Stadt kämpfend, den sicheren Tod vor Augen, erfüllt sich die Liebe des französischen Milizsoldaten Jean zu dem deutschen Panzerschützen Erik.

Jean Genet: Tagebuch des Diebes

Dt. v. Gerhard Hock. D 2000, 326 S., geb., € 26.80
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Merlin-Verlag - Genet Werke in Einzelbänden 5
Autobiografie und Imagination verbindet Jean Genet in diesem Roman zu einem poetischen Bericht über die Jahre seines Umherschweifens durch Europa. Eine inbrünstige Verherrlichung seines durchlittenen Elends. »Tagebuch des Diebes«, schrieb Ruth Herrmann in der ZEIT, »ist dasjenige Buch Genets, das am ehesten den Zugang zu seinen eigentlichen Absichten öffnet.«

L. P. Hartley: The Go-Between

UK 2000, 292 pp., pb, € 15.95
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Penguin UK
Summering with a fellow schoolboy on a great English estate, Leo, the hero of L. P. Hartley's finest novel, encounters a world of unimagined luxury. But when his friend's beautiful older sister enlists him as the unwitting messenger in her illicit love affair, the aftershocks will be felt for years. The inspiration for the brilliant Joseph Losey / Harold Pinter ... Weiterlesen

Guido Bachmann: lebenslänglich

CH 2000, 205 S., Pb, € 16.45
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Mit lebenslänglich gibt Guido Bachmann nebst dem Einblick in seine persönliche Geschichte und einer bitteren, aber nie verbitterten Zeitkritik auch einen Schlüsel zum präziseren Verständnis seines bisherigen Werks, das in seiner Stringenz, Wortgewaltigkeit, aber auch Verletzlichkeit in der schweizerischen Nachkriegsliteratur so einsam dasteht wie zwischen den beiden Weltkriegen das Werk eines anderen, der - obwohl heimatberechtigt in Sigriswil - eigentlich ... Weiterlesen

Dwight York: Bellringer

USA 2000, 225 pp., brochure, € 25.15
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Set in the late 60s/ early 70s, »Bellringer« follows the trials and tribulations of Tony, a likeable college student who discovers his homosexuality and gay militancy during his freshman year. He is inspired to come out by his linguistics professor, Robert Miller, an openly gay man who, despite being at the top of his field, has yet to be granted ... Weiterlesen

Shyam Selvadurai: Die Zimtgärten

D 1999, 410 S., Pb, € 14.95
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Goldmann
In die aufrührerische Kolonie Ceylon, dem heutigen Sri Lanka, schickt die britische Regierung eine Delegation, die sondieren soll, was zur Beruhigung dieses Unruheherdes getan werden könnte. Einer der Deligierten, Richard, hatte in seiner Studienzeit eine leidenschaftliche Affäre mit Balendran, den sein vermögender Vater nach England zum Studieren geschickt hatte. Balendran wurde jedoch von seinem Vater in eine Ehe gezwungen, seine ... Weiterlesen
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Oscar Wilde: De Profundis, The Ballad of Reading Gaol & Other Writings

UK 1999, 296 pp.,brochure, € 12.95
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Wordsworth
De Profundis is Wilde's eloquent and bitter reproach from prison to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. He contrasts his behaviour with that of his close friend Robert Ross who became Wilde's literary executor. The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a deeply moving and characteristically generous poem on the horrors of prison life, which was published anonymously in 1898. This collection ... Weiterlesen

Colm Tóibín: The Blackwater Lightship

USA/UK/CAN/AUS 2004, 273 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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Simon and Schuster
Ireland in the early 1990s. Helen, her mother, Lily, and her grandmother, Dora have come together to tend to Helen's brother, Declan, who is dying of AIDS. With Declan's two friends, the six of them are forced to plumb the shoals of their own histories and to come to terms with each other. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, »The Blackwater ... Weiterlesen