Andrew Sean Greer: Less Is Lost

UK 2023, 257 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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For Arthur Less, life is going surprisingly well: he is a moderately accomplished novelist in a steady relationship with his partner, Freddy Pelu. But nothing lasts: the death of an old lover and a sudden financial crisis has Less running away from his problems yet again as he accepts a series of literary gigs that send him on a zigzagging ... Weiterlesen

Ryan O'Connell: Just by Looking at Him

UK 2023, 304 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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Eliott is a TV writer with a perfect-penised boyfriend. He's living the dream. But behind the glossy veneer he's been papering over cracks, and they're starting to show. He has creatively stifled, he's drinking a little too often and his cerebral palsy makes him feel like gay Shrek. When River walks in, Elliott's life is turned upside down in the ... Weiterlesen

David Sedaris: Happy-Go-Lucky

UK 2022, 272 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask - or not - was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to feed to ants, and telling his ... Weiterlesen

Rabih Alameddine: The Wrong End of the Telescope

UK 2021, 354 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. But with a week off work and apart from her wife ... Weiterlesen

David Sedaris: A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020

UK 2021, 576 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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If it's navel-gazing you're after, you've come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, his observations turn outward: a fight between two men on a bus, a fight between two men on the street, pedestrians being whacked over the head or gathering to watch as a man considers leap­ing to his death. There's a dirty joke shared at a ... Weiterlesen

David Sedaris: The Best of Me

UK 2020, 419 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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A lavish gift edition of David Sedaris's best stories, spanning his spectacular bestselling career. Hand-picked by David himself, these are stories that will make you laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time. What could be a more tempting holiday gift than a compendium of David Sedaris's best stories, selected by the author himself? From a spectacular career spanning almost ... Weiterlesen

Colson Whitehead: The Nickel Boys

UK 2019, 211 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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The story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis - abandoned by his parents - is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South in the ... Weiterlesen

Naomi Wolf: Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalisation of Love

UK 2019, 400 pp., hardbound, € 29.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
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Naomi Wolf illuminates a dramatic history: how the Obscene Publications Act of 1857 led to a maelstrom, with reverberations lasting to our day. At once, dissent and morality, deviancy and normalcy, became modern legal concepts: if writers, editors, printers and booksellers did not uphold the law and the morals of society they faced serious repercussions. Wolf depicts the ways this ... Weiterlesen

David Sedaris: Calypso

UK 2018, 273 pp., pb., € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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When David Sedars buys a beach house on the Carolina coast, he envisions long, relaxing vacations spent playing board games and lounging in the sun with those he loves most. And life at the Sea Section, as he names the vacation home, is exactly as idyllic as he imagined, except for one tiny, vexing realization: it's impossible to take a ... Weiterlesen

David Sedaris: Theft by Finding

Diaries, Vol. 1: 1977-2002. USA 2017, 528 pp., brochure, € 21.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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David Sedaris tells all in a book that is, literally, a lifetime in the making. For forty years, David Sedaris has kept a diary in which he records everything that captures his attention - overheard comments, salacious gossip, soap opera plot twists, secrets confided by total strangers. These observations are the source code for his finest work, and through them ... Weiterlesen

Andrew Sean Greer: Less

USA 2018, 262 pp., pb., € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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Who says you can't run away from your problems? Arthur Less is a failed gay novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: his ex-boyfriend of the past nine years is now engaged to someone else. Arthur cannot say yes - that would be too awkward - and he can't say no - that would look ... Weiterlesen

Cleve Jones: When We Rise

Coming of Age in San Francisco, AIDS, and My Life in the Movement. USA 2017, 256 pp., hardback, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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This is a personal memoir from a leading figure in the gay rights movement, Cleve Jones. It partially inspired the forthcoming TV mini-series »When We Rise« from Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, executive producer Gus Van Sant, and starring Guy Pearce. Longtime LGBTQ and AIDS activist Cleve Jones' memoir is a sweeping, profoundly moving account of his life from ... Weiterlesen

John Waters: Carsick

UK 2015, 336 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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Now available as a paperback - John Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thin mustache, and a cardboard sign that reads »I'm Not Psycho«, he hitchhikes across America from Baltimore to San Francisco, braving lonely roads and treacherous drivers. But who should we be more worried about, the delicate film director with genteel manners ... Weiterlesen

Sarah Waters: The Paying Guests

UK 2014, 576 pp., brochure, € 21.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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Der Erste Weltkrieg hat die britische Gesellschaft schwer erschüttert, die Jahre nach dem eigentlich gewonnenen Krieg bringen den Niedergang vieler vormals fest in der Oberschicht etablierter Familien, sei es alter Geburts- oder städtischer Geldadel. So hat es auch die Wrays getroffen, die verwitwete alte Mrs Wray und ihre 25jährige ledige Tochter Frances bewohnen zwar noch das eigene Haus in einem ... Weiterlesen
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David Sedaris: Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

UK 2013, 275 pp., pb., € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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A guy walks into a bar car and... - From here the story could take many turns. When this guy is David Sedaris, the possibilities are endless, but the result is always the same: he will both delight you with twists of humor and intelligence and leave you deeply moved. Sedaris remembers his father's dinnertime attire (shirtsleeves and underpants), his ... Weiterlesen

Sarah Waters: Tipping the Velvet

UK 1998, 422 pp., p., € 16.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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This delicious, steamy debut novel chronicles the adventures of Nan King, who begins life as an oyster girl in the provincial seaside town of Whitstable and whose fortunes are forever changed when she falls in love with a cross-dressing music-hall singer named Miss Kitty Butler. When Kitty is called up to London for an engagement on »Grease Paint Avenue«, Nan ... Weiterlesen

Paul Trynka: Iggy Pop - Open up and Bleed

UK 2008, 450 pp. illustrated, Pb, € 13.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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At the end of the 1960s, Jim Osterberg, a charming, hyperintelligent, ambitious boy from a Michigan trailer park, teamed up with two miscreant brothers to form the band »The Stooges«, single-handedly presaging the entire punk, new wave, metal, and alternative rock movements. His alter ego, Iggy Pop, perhaps the greatest rock front man and gender-bending sex icon ever, was exalted ... Weiterlesen

David Sedaris: Me Talk Pretty One Day

UK 2001, 272pp., pb., € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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David Sedaris' move to Paris from New York inspired these hilarious pieces, including the title essay, about his attempts to learn French from a sadistic teacher who declares that every day spent with you is like having a caesarean section. His family is another inspiration. You Can't Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother, who talks incessant hip-hop ... Weiterlesen