Emma Donoghue: Room

USA 2010, 402 pp., Pb, € 8.50
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It's Jack's birthday, and he's excited about turning five. He lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight and measures 11 by 11 feet. He loves watching TV, and the cartoon characters he calls friends, but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real - only him, Ma and the things ... Weiterlesen

Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex

USA 2003, 596 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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»Middlesex« tells the story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family, who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City and the race riots of 1967 before moving out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope ... Weiterlesen

Charles Causley: Collected Poems 1951 - 2000

UK 2000, 430 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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This revised collection gathers together Charles Causley's poetry spanning a period of more than fifty years and includes his most recent unpublished work as well as some of his poems for children. Charles Stanley Causley was born in Launceston in Cornwall, and spent most of his life there. After serving in the navy in the second world war (an experience ... Weiterlesen

Byrne Fone: Homophobia: A History

USA 2001, 480 pp., brochure, € 34.95
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Antipathy, condemnation, loathing, fear and proscription of homosexual behavior have taken many forms over the centuries. In this lucid history, Fone charts the ways in which homophobia has induced legal, medical, social and ecclesiastical authorities to punish – and kill – gay men. Drawing upon accepted classics of gay studies (like Boswell and Greenberg) as well as other books and ... Weiterlesen

Susan Sontag: Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

USA 1990, 183 pp., brochure, € 16.95
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In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote »Illness as Metaphor«, a classic work described by Newsweek as »one of the most liberating books of its time«. A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper ... Weiterlesen