Jonathan Coe: The Rain Before It Falls

UK 2007, 278 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin UK
As 73-year-old Rosamond sits alone in her remote Shropshire house, her dying thoughts turn to her cousin's granddaughter, Imogen, who has been blind from an early age. Rosamond realizes that she has one last duty to perform: to describe on tape, for Imogen's benefit, a series of 20 photographs which between them tell a tragic family history. At the centre ... Weiterlesen

Adam Haslett: Imagine Me Gone

UK 2005, 356 pp., pb., € 14.95
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Penguin UK
Michael is a precocious kid, smart and funny, obsessed with books and music. His sister Celia is the sensible one in the family: tougher than the boys, unshakeably certain about how the world works. And then there is gay Alec, the most ambitious and also the most sensitive, growing up in the shadow of his older siblings. While all three ... Weiterlesen

Colm Tóibín: The Story of the Night

USA 2017, 400 pp., pb., € 19.95
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Penguin UK
In Argentina, in the time of the Generals, the streets are empty at night, and people have trained themselves not to see. Richard Garay lives with his mother, hiding his homosexuality from her and from society. Stifled by his job, Richard is willing to take chances, both sexually and professionally. But Argentina is changing, and as his country edges toward ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Plays

Ed. by Frank Romany and Robert Lindsey. UK 2003, 702 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Penguin UK
Marlowe's seven plays dramatise the fatal lure of potent forces, whether religious, occult or erotic. In the victories of Tamburlaine, Faustus's encounters with the demonic, the irreverence of Barabas in »The Jew of Malta«, and the humiliation of gay Edward II in his fall from power and influence, Marlowe explores the shifting balance between power and helplessness, the sacred and ... Weiterlesen

James Baldwin: Go Tell it to the Mountains

UK 2001, 256 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Penguin UK
»Go Tell It On The Mountain,« first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of ... Weiterlesen

Gertrude Stein: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

UK 2001 (Reprint), 273 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Penguin UK
A insight into the vibrant culture of Modernism, and the rich artistic world of Paris's Left Bank. For Gertrude Stein and her wife Alice B. Toklas, life in Paris was based upon the rue de Fleurus and the Saturday evenings and »it was like a kaleidoscope slowly turning«. Picasso was there with »his high whinnying Spanish giggle«, as were Cezanne ... Weiterlesen

Truman Capote: Breakfast at Tiffany's

UK 2000 (Reprint), 157 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Penguin UK
It's New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffany's. And nice girls don't, except, of course, Holly Golightly. Pursued by Mafia gangsters and playboy millionaires, Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair and turned-up nose, a heart-breaker, a perplexer, a traveller, a tease. She is irrepressibly »top banana in the shock ... Weiterlesen

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

Patricia Highsmith: The Talented Mister Ripley

UK 1999, 248 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Penguin UK - Ripley 1
It's here, in the first volume of Patricia Highsmith's five-book Ripley series, that we are introduced to the suave Tom Ripley, a young striver seeking to leave behind his past as an orphan bullied for being a »sissy«. Newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan, Ripley meets a wealthy industrialist who hires him to bring his playboy son, Dickie ... Weiterlesen

Radclyffe Hall: The Well of Loneliness

UK 2014, 530 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Penguin UK
First published in 1928, this timeless portrayal of lesbian love is now a classic. The thinly disguised story of Hall's own life, it was banned outright upon publication and almost ruined her literary career. The story follows the life of Stephen Gordon, an Englishwoman from an upper-class family whose »sexual inversion« (that is, homosexuality) is apparent from an early age. ... Weiterlesen