Melissa Broder: Milk Fed

USA 2021, 292 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Rachel is 24, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control, by way of obsessive food rituals, while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. Rachel is content to carry on subsisting - until her therapist ... Weiterlesen

Jamie O'Neill: At Swim, Two Boys

UK 2017, 643 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Set in Dublin and its near surround the novel follows the year to Easter 1916, the time of Ireland‘s brave but fractured uprising against British rule. At its core it tells the love of two boys, Jim, a naive and reticent scholar, the younger son of foolish, aspirant shopkeeper Mr Mack, and Doyler, the dark rough diamond son of Mr ... Weiterlesen

Ian McGuire: The North Water

USA 2016, 326 pp., pb., € 14.95
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A ship sets sail with a killer on board in 1859. A man joins a whaling ship bound for the Arctic Circle. Having left the British Army with his reputation in tatters, Patrick Sumner has little option but to accept the position of ship's surgeon on this ill-fated voyage. But when, deep into the journey, a cabin boy is discovered ... Weiterlesen

Lori Ostlund: After the Parade

USA 2016, 340 pp., brochure, € 16.95
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Sensitive, bighearted, and achingly self-conscious, 40-year-old Aaron Englund long ago escaped the confinements of his Midwestern hometown, but he still feels like an outcast. Walter, the language professor who rescued Aaron at 18 by preventing his abusive father from killing him, is now since 20 years his older partner. Aaron at last decides it is time to take control of ... Weiterlesen

Sean Straub: Body Counts

A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival. USA 2014, 420 pp. with b/w photographs, hardbound, € 28.99
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As a politics-obsessed Georgetown freshman, Sean Strub arrived in Washington, D.C., from Iowa in 1976, with a plum part-time job running a Senate elevator in the U.S. Capitol. He also harbored a terrifying secret: his attraction to men. As Strub explored the capital's political and social circles, he discovered a parallel world where powerful men lived double lives shrouded in ... Weiterlesen

Staceyann Chin: The Other Side of Paradise

A Memoir. USA 2010, 282 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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No one knew Steceyann's mother was pregnant until a dangerously small baby was born on the floor of her grandmother's house. Staceyann's mother didn't want her, and her father was not present. No one, except her grandmother, thought Staceyann would survive. It was her grandmother who nurtured and protected and provided for Staceyann and her older brother in the early ... Weiterlesen

Colm Tóibín: The Story of the Night

USA 2005, 324 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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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

Colm Tóibín: The Story of the Night

USA 2005, 324 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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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

Annie Proulx: Brokeback Mountain Film Tie-in

USA 2005, 57 pp., brochure, € 8.90
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Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, »Brokeback Mountain« is her masterpiece. Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they're working as sheepherder and camp tender one summer on a range above the tree line. At first, sharing an isolated ... Weiterlesen