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Thema: Coming-of-age



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John Green und David Levithan: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

John Green und David Levithan: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

USA 2010, 313 pp., hardbound, € 15.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
It's not that far from Evanston to Naperville, but Chicago suburbanites Will Grayson and Will Grayson might as well live on different planets. When fate delivers them both to the same surprising crossroads, the Will Graysons find their lives overlapping and hurtling in new and unexpected directions. One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, these two strangers ... Weiterlesen

Eric Poole: Where's My Wand?

Eric Poole: Where's My Wand?

One Boy's Magical Triumph over Alienation and Shag Carpeting. USA 2010, 264 pp., hardbound, € 20.69
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
From an early age, Eric Poole was obsessed with Eudora of TV's »Bewitched«. Just days after his family's Pontiac pulled into the driveway of the Pooles' new home in St. Louis, Missouri, 8-year-old Eric had staked out the basement as his special place: a spot where he could secretly perform magical incantations, draped in a flowing white bedspread he furtively ... Weiterlesen

Sebastian Stuart: The Hour Between

Sebastian Stuart: The Hour Between

USA 2009, 253 pp., brochure, € 13.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
When Arthur McDougal is kicked out of Manhattan's toniest boys' school, his parents ship him off to the only place that will take him in - the Christian Science inflected Spooner School. There, in the woods of Connecticut, Arthur meets Katrina Felt, the charming, but troubled daughter of a Hollywood movie star. As Arthur struggles with his sexuality and Katrina's ... Weiterlesen

Terry Galloway: Mean Little Deaf Queer

Terry Galloway: Mean Little Deaf Queer

A Memoir. USA 2009, 230 pp., hardback, € 21.69
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
When Terry Galloway was born on Halloween, no one knew that an experimental antibiotic given to her mother had wreaked havoc on her fatal nervous system. After her family moved from Berlin, Germany, to Austin, Texas, hers became a deafening, hallucinatory childhood where everything, including her own body, changed for the worse. But those unwelcome changes awoke in this particular ... Weiterlesen

Peter Cameron: Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

Peter Cameron: Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

USA 2009, 229 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Though he's been accepted by Brown University, James Sveck isn't sure he wants to go to college. He's a sophisticated, vulnerable young man with a deep appreciation for the world and no idea how to live in it. He's the 18-year-old son of divorced parents living in Manhattan, articulate, sensitive, and cynical. He rejects all of the assumptions that govern ... Weiterlesen

Josh Kilmer-Purcell: Candy Everybody Wants

Josh Kilmer-Purcell: Candy Everybody Wants

USA 2008, 252 pp., brochure, € 12.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Jayson Blocher, a suburban high school student in the 1980s Midwest, is tired of worshiping pop culture. He wants to be part of it. After writing and starring in his homeshot, gay coming-of-age soap, »Dallasty!«, he sets his sights on Hollywood. So he's off, accompanied by an ever-changing cast of quirky extended family members, on an extremely bumpy journey from ... Weiterlesen

Kevin Sessums: Mississippi Sissy

Kevin Sessums: Mississippi Sissy

USA 2008, 305 pp., brochure, € 11.59
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Sessums, a journalist who specializes in celebrity interviews, describes and analyzes his own childhood and youth, writing of both sexual orientation and race relations in the '60s and early '70s. As a toddler, he swished and posed instead of responding to his basketball coach father's expectation of masculinity. However, both parents were dead by the time he was 9, and ... Weiterlesen

Sándor Márai: The Rebels

Sándor Márai: The Rebels

USA 2008, 278 pp., brochure, € 11.59
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
This early novel from the rediscovered Hungarian writer Sándor Márai is a haunting story of a group of alienated boys on the cusp of adult life - and possibly death - during World War I. Summer 1918: four boys approaching graduation are living in a ghost town bereft of fathers, uncles, and older brothers, all of whom are off fighting ... Weiterlesen

Will Davis: My Side of the Story

Will Davis: My Side of the Story

UK 2008, 256 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
So what if your parents hate each other and want you to have therapy? So what if your holier-than-thou sister (also known as »The Nun«) and her posse have decided you're going to hell? So what if the school tyrant and his goons are hunting you down, or if your best friend has just outed you to a neo-Nazi? 16-year-old ... Weiterlesen

John Cornwell: Seminary Boy

John Cornwell: Seminary Boy

USA 2008, 321 pp., brochure, € 12.39
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
The author's memoir of an adolescence spent in the isolated all-male world of a seminary. Born into a destitute family with a dominating Irish-Catholic mother and an absconding father during WW II in London, John Cornwell experienced a deeply dysfunctional childhood. When he was sent to a remote seminary for boys in the countryside at 13. While he lived under ... Weiterlesen

Shyam Selvadurai: Swimming in the Monsoon Sea

Shyam Selvadurai: Swimming in the Monsoon Sea

CAN 2007, 274 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
The setting is Sri Lanka, 1980, and it is the season of monsoons. Fourteen-year-old Amrith is caught up in the life of the cheerful, well-to-do household in which he is being raised by his vibrant Auntie Bundle and kindly Uncle Lucky. He tries not to think of his life »before« when his doting mother was still alive. Amrith's holiday plans ... Weiterlesen
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Christopher Barzak: One for Sorrow

Christopher Barzak: One for Sorrow

USA 2007, 309 pp., brochure, € 10.79
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Adam McCormick had just turned 15 when the body was found in the woods. It is the beginning of an autumn that will change his life forever. Jamie Marks was a boy a lot like Adam, a boy no one paid much attention to - a boy almost no one would truly miss. And for the first time, Adam feels ... Weiterlesen

Julie A. Peters: grl2grl

Julie A. Peters: grl2grl

USA 2007, 151 pp., brochure, € 11.39
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
In this short story collection the author offers a portrayal of teens as they anvigate the hurdles of relationships and sexual identity. From the young lesbian taking her first steps toward coming out, to the two strangers who lock eyes across a crowded train, to the transgender teen longing for a sense of self, or the girl whose abusive father ... Weiterlesen

Sarah Schulman: The Child

Sarah Schulman: The Child

USA 2007, 282 pp., hardbound, € 22.59
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Structured like a classic novel of legal suspense, »The Child« explores what happens when Stew, a lonely 15-year-old boy, looks for and finds an adult boyfriend online. In short order his lover is arrested in an Internet pedophilia sting and Stew's world is turned upside down. He's exposed to his family and community, leaving the young outcast to fend for ... Weiterlesen

Alex Sanchez: Rainbow Road

Alex Sanchez: Rainbow Road

USA 2007, 250 pp., brochure, € 9.20
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
It's the end of the road. Jason Carrillo came out to his basketball team and lost his university scholarship. Now that he's graduated, he's been asked to speak at the opening of a gay and lesbian high school across the country - but what is he going to say? Kyle Meeks is getting ready to go to Princeton in the ... Weiterlesen

André Aciman: Call Me by Your Name

André Aciman: Call Me by Your Name

USA 2007, 248 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
The author poignantly probes a boy's erotic coming-of-age at his family's Italian Mediterranean home. Elio -17-year-old, extremely well-read, sensitive and the son of a prominent expatriate professor - finds himself troublingly attracted to this year's visiting resident scholar, recruited by his father from an American university. Oliver is 24, breezy and spontaneous, and working on a book about a Greek ... Weiterlesen

Patrick Ryan: Send Me

Patrick Ryan: Send Me

USA 2007, 312 pp., brochure, € 12.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Teresa Kerrigan, ungrounded by two divorces, tries to keep herself together. But her ex-husbands linger in the background while her four children spin away to their own separate futures, each carrying the baggage of a complex family history. Matt serves as caretaker to the ailing father who abandoned him as a child, while his wild teenage sister, Karen, hides herself ... Weiterlesen

Dennis Cooper: Frisk

Dennis Cooper: Frisk

USA 1991, 128 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
When Dennis is 13, he sees a series of photographs of a boy apparently unimaginably mutilated. Dennis is not shocked, but stunned by their mystery and their power, their glimpse at the reality of death. Some years later, Dennis meets the boy who posed for the photographs. He did it for love. Surrounded by images of violence, the celebrity of ... Weiterlesen

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