Tennessee Williams: Memoirs

USA 2007, 274 pp. with numerous b/w photographs, brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin USA
Long self-identified as a gay man, America's greatest playwright Williams' candour in his book about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug use was found shocking in and of itself. Here, more than thirty years later, Williams' look back at his life is not quite so scandalous as it once seemed. Director John Waters provided an introduction to the book ... Weiterlesen

James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time

USA 2007, 89 pp., pb, € 14.95
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Penguin USA
»The Fire Next Time« galvanized the US nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document. It consists of two »letters,« written on the occasion of the ... Weiterlesen

Reinaldo Arenas: Farewell to the Sea

USA 1987, 414 pp., pb., € 19.95
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Penguin USA
In this brilliant, apocalyptic vision of Castro's Cuba, we meet a young couple who leave the dreariness of Havana and spend six days at a small seaside retreat, where they hope to recapture the desire and carefree spirit that once united them. In a stunning juxtaposition of narrative voices, the wife recounts the grim reality of her marriage, the demands ... Weiterlesen

Yukio Mishima: Confessions of a Mask

USA 1958, 254 pp., pb., € 19.95
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Penguin USA
»Confessions of a Mask« is the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact that he is unlike other young men: Mishima's protagonist discovers that he is becoming a homosexual in polite, post-war Japan. To survive, he must live behind a mask of propriety. Christopher Isherwood comments - »One might say, »Here is a Japanese ... 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

Gore Vidal: Palimpsest

USA 1995, 448 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Penguin USA
This explosively entertaining memoir abounds in gossip, satire, historical apercus, and trenchant observations. Vidal's compelling narrative weaves back and forth in time, providing a whole view of the author's celebrated gay life, from his birth in 1925 to today, and features a cast of memorable characters - including the Kennedy family, Marlon Brando, Anais Nin, and Eleanor Roosevelt.

Joe Keenan: Putting on the Ritz

USA 1992, 326 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin USA - Gilbert Selwyn and Friends 2
Following the hilarious debacle of »Blue Heaven«, librettist Philip Cavanaugh has again allowed himself to be drawn into a fiendish money-making plan by his friend and ex-lover Gilbert Selwyn. Gilbert has fallen in with Tommy Parker, a veritable Adonis and a magazine editor employed by media magnate Boyd Larkin. Philip's brief is to spy on Larkin's greatest adversary Peter Champion. ... Weiterlesen

James Baldwin: Another Country

USA 1992, 436 pp., pb, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin USA
Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, »Another Country 174 is a novel of passions - sexual, racial, political, artistic - that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime. In ... Weiterlesen