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Thema: Coming-of-age



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Sanford Friedman: Totempole

Sanford Friedman: Totempole

USA 2014, 280 pp., brochure, € 29.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Totempole is Sanford Friedman's radical gay coming-of-age novel, featuring Stephen Wolfe, a young Jewish boy growing up in New York City and its environs during the Depression and war years. In eight discrete chapters, which trace Stephen's evolution from a two-year-old boy to a twenty-four-year-old man, Friedman describes with psychological acuity and great empathy Stephen's intellectual, moral, and sexual maturation. ... Weiterlesen

Kim Fu: For Today I Am a Boy

Kim Fu: For Today I Am a Boy

USA 2014, 242 pp., pb., € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Peter Huang and his sisters - elegant Adele, shrewd Helen, and Bonnie the bon vivant - grow up in a house of many secrets, then escape the confines of small-town Ontario and spread from Montreal to California to Berlin. Peter's own journey is obstructed by playground bullies, masochistic lovers, Christian ex-gays, and the ever-present shadow of his Chinese father. At ... Weiterlesen

Christos Tsiolkas: Barracuda

Christos Tsiolkas: Barracuda

UK 2013, 515 pp., brochure, € 15.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Atlantic
Daniel Kelly has one chance to escape his working-class upbringing. His atonishing ability in the swimming pool should transform his life and silence the rich boys at the private school to which he has won a sports scholarship. Everything Danny has ever done, every sacrifice his family has ever made, has been in pursuit of his dream. But when he ... Weiterlesen

James Hanley: Boy

James Hanley: Boy

UK 2012, 212 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Alma
A gay classic of working-class sexuality, acclaimed by luminaries such as William Faulkner and suppressed for more than 50 years by a prosecution for obscenity James Hanley's 1930s classic charts the short and brutish life of a boy forced out of school and into the unforgiving world of work. Escape - in the form of stowing away on a ship ... Weiterlesen

Benjamin Alire Sáenz: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Benjamin Alire Sáenz: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

USA 2012, 359 pp., pb., € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Dante can swim. Ari can't. Dante is articulate and self-assured. Ari has a hard time with words and suffers from self-doubt. Dante gets lost in poetry and art. Ari gets lost in thoughts of his older brother who is in prison. Dante is fair skinned. Ari's features are much darker. It seems that a boy like Dante, with his open ... Weiterlesen
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Tom Baker: Full Frontal

Tom Baker: Full Frontal

To Make a Long Journey Short. USA 2012, 117 pp., brochure, € 10.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
iUniverse
August 1957: Tim Halladay, a caddie at the Long Shore Country Club, is looking forward to beginning 8th grade at Assumption School. Tim and his best friend and fellow caddie, Jimmy, are oblivious to the fact that they are slowly transforming into young men with secret desires. As Tim embarks on a journey of emotional and sexual development, he approaches ... Weiterlesen

Trebor Healey: Faun

Trebor Healey: Faun

USA 2012, 270 pp., brochure, € 21.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Lethe
One morning Gilberto Rubio wakes up with a five o'clock shadow. Puberty. But why are his legs getting so furry? And what are these little horn nubs pushing out of his scalp? What's that nub of a tail that's making it so hard to sit on anything but couches? His peers begin to treat him like a freak, while his ... Weiterlesen

Håkan Lindquist: On Collecting Stamps

Håkan Lindquist: On Collecting Stamps

D 2012, 170 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bruno Gmünder - English Series
A journey to the town where he was born becomes a trip into the past: when Mattias hears about the death of a friend from his childhood days, he starts recalling the time with Samuel. Mattias was searching for a friend, while Samuel was longing for the love of his life, a young sailor on the edge of manhood. Samuel's ... Weiterlesen

David Kelly: Rainy Day Recess

David Kelly: Rainy Day Recess

The Complete Steven's Comics. USA 2011, 120 pp., brochure, € 19.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Northwest
From 1995 to 1998, David Kelly's »Steven's Comics« appeared in gay and alternative newspapers in the U.S., exploring the world of a sensitive boy coming of age in the seventies, with all its joys, quirks, and heartbreaks. This volume collects the entire series, as well as rare strips and illustrations and additional material created especially for this edition.

Mikey Walsh: Gypsy Boy

Mikey Walsh: Gypsy Boy

UK 2010, 292 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Hodder and Stoughton
Mikey Walsh was born into a Romany Gypsy family, and this is his memoir of growing up gypsy and gay. Gypsies live in secluded communities and little is known about their way of life. After centuries of persecution, Gypsies are wary of outsiders, and if you choose to leave you can never come back. This is something Mikey knows too ... Weiterlesen

Michael Carson: Sucking Sherbet Lemons

Michael Carson: Sucking Sherbet Lemons

The Coming-of-Age Novel with a Difference. UK 2010, 292 pp., brochure, € 13.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Cutting Edge
A gay Adrian Mole: what do you do when you are fat, 14, obsessed with the catholic church, with Doing the Right Thing, with scones and sweets, with other boys and their private parts? Well, if you're Benson, you panic and flee, hiding from the flesh as a novice in a monastery. Alas, St Finbar's monastery is as full of ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Stoddard: White, Christian

Christopher Stoddard: White, Christian

USA 2010, 209pp., brochure, € 18.20
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
20-year-old Christian White is attractive, droll, addicted, frightened, cynical, homosexual, infantile, campy, sexually compulsive, fragile, but somehow dynamic. He's a poster boy for a long list of contemporary dysfunctions. His borderline lifestyle is a carnival of drugs and sex, accessorized by designer clothes and frequent stealing or scamming. Underneath the decadence are haunting memories of childhood abuse, the death of ... Weiterlesen

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

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