Red-state values meet a blue-state hero in this beautiful exploration of a nontraditional family. The weekend after Thanksgiving, Chris Thayer finds himself packing up the last odds and ends of his quietly extraordinary life. After 22 years of gay marriage to Zack Rowan - and after raising widowed Zack's kids as his own - Chris is suddenly single. What's a ... Weiterlesen

William J. Mann: All American Boy

USA 2006, 360 pp., brochure, € 15.20
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

With these desperate words from the mysterious, distant mother he hasn't seen in years, Wally Day finds his carefully constructed world falling in on itself. For years, the handsome actor has made denial his own particular art form - from his stalled career to his emotionless embrace of the hard-edged boys who regularly traipse through his bedroom. But now, faced ... Weiterlesen

David Leavitt: The Lost Language of Cranes

UK/USA 2005, 308 pp., pb, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bloomsbury

David Leavitt's debut novel is a seminal work about family, sexual identity, home, and loss. It can be considered a gay classic. Set in the 1980s against the backdrop of a swiftly gentrifying Manhattan, �The Lost Language of Cranes� tells the story of 25-year-old Philip, who realizes he must come out to his parents after falling in love for the ... Weiterlesen

Arthur Wooten: On Picking Fruit

USA 2005,159 pp., brochure, € 15.89
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Although he was born gay, Curtis Jenkins has trouble picking fruit. Now a successful middle-aged New York City writer, he is still searching for the man of his dreams. Unfortunately, Chris has already formed a self-destructive pattern of choosing all the wrong men in all the wrong places. After a bizarre yet comical attempt at suicide Curtis becomes a reluctant ... Weiterlesen

Paul Golding: Senseless

UK 2005, 525 pp., brochure, € 10.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

Set against the backdrop of 1980s London, with its spangled haunt and limitless indulgence, �Senseless�, Paul Golding's 2nd novel after �The Abomination� (€ 12,99) chronicles, through the jaded faculties of its narrator, a world which veers from dancing to desiring, from recreational drugs to prescribed ones, and back. At the core of the story lie George's two principal relationships - ... Weiterlesen

Michael Chabon: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

USA 2005, 297 pp. + 15 P.S. on Author & Book, brochure, € 12.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

Art Bechstein, a young college student who has a gangster father, romantic problems, and a growing collection of bizarre friends, meets Arthur Lecomte, a handsome young homosexual who proceeds to initiate Art into his own world for reasons that are his own. Through Arthur, Art meets Cleveland, a motorcycle-driving hellion with an untold intelligence, and Phlox, a young woman with ... Weiterlesen

Scott Heim: Mysterious Skin

USA 2005, 292 S., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
HarperPerennial

At the age of 8 Brian Lackey is found bleeding under the crawl space of his house, having endured something so traumatic that he cannot remember it for long. During the following years he slowly recalls details from that night, but these fragments are not enough to explain what happened to him, and he begins to believe that he may ... Weiterlesen

Brent Hartinger: The Order of the Poison Oak

USA 2005, 215 pp., hardback, € 14.89
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

The sequel to �Geography Club�: 16-year-old Russel, now openly gay and tired of being the freak at school, tries to escape as a counselor in a rural summer camp with his two best friends. The camp kids are 10-year-old burn survivors, scarred and disfigured, and Russel identifies with them. They also have fun together, once he stops seeing them as ... Weiterlesen

Tom Dolby: The Trouble Boy

USA 2005, 264 pp., brochure, € 13.69
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At 22, Toby Griffin wants it all - fame, fortune, an Oscar-winning screen-play and a good-looking boyfriend by his side. For now, what he's got is a freelance writing job at a tanking online magazine, a walk-up sublet in the East Village and �the boys�, a young posse of preppy Upper East Siders with a taste for high fashion, top-shelf ... Weiterlesen

Christine Geraghty: My Beautiful Laundrette

UK 2005, 108 pp., brochure, € 18.29
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

�My Beautiful Laundrette� is a phenomenon, a small TV film which became a political and social landmark, a classic which speaks to audiences today. It is a gay romance, a lesson in ethnic diversity, a riposte to Thatcherite principles and a celebration of the edgy possibilities of London in the 1980s. A crucial film for director Stephen Frears and writer ... Weiterlesen

Timothy J. Beck: I'm Your Man

USA 2004, 376 pp., brochure, € 11.49
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At thirtysomething, Blaine Dunhill has a great career in fashion advertising, a fab NYC apartment, and some loyal friends that he's trying to share amicably with his ex, a famous soap star. Working in the big-time cosmetics world is all about glamour and artifice (�Like Barbies that can talk�), but what the self-professed nice guy from Wisconsin really wants is ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Bram: Lives of the Circus Animals

USA 2004, 342 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

Henry Lense is a prominent British actor starring in a musical, but preoccupied with sex. His latest find is Toby Vogler, a good-looking, not terribly bright young man, honored to have the attention of the star, but too earnest to provide full satisfaction. Toby is longing for Caleb Doyle, a playwright whose first stage success was followed by the immediate ... Weiterlesen

Tom Nussbaum: The Boy in the Book

USA 2004, 207 pp., brochure, € 19.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

When a thirty-something retired Microsoft millionaire is confronted by a homeless teenager, their lives dramatically changed. The unlikely pair finds itself in a relationship based on suspicion and distrust. However, an unexpected series of events quickly changes the dynamics of their relationship. Jon and Rick are thrown into the world of unraveled mysteries, exposed dark secrets, and sexual deceptions. To ... Weiterlesen

Paul Burston: Shameless

USA 2004, 279 pp., brochure, € 12.69
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

Martin is kind, decent, easy on the eyes. His boyfriend of four years has run off with a male prostitute, and his friends John and Caroline both have enough excess baggage to fill a Louis Vuitton window display. What's a nice gay man to do? With no one to turn to, Martin decides to relive the wild youth he never ... Weiterlesen

Paul Monette: Becoming a Man

USA 2004, 278 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

Paul Monette first made a name for himself in 1978 with his debut novel �Taking Care of Mrs. Carroll�, a comic romp with serious overtones. He established himself as a writer of popular fiction with three more novels before he and his lover were both diagnosed with HIV. In 1988 he wrote �On Borrowed Time�, a memoir of living with ... Weiterlesen

Dennis Cooper: Try

UK 2004, 199 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

Ziggy is the adopted son of two gay men, whose attempt at heterosexual-style domesticity has collapsed spectacularly. Now a deeply disturbed teenager, Ziggy lives with one father in L.A. who has been raping him since he was 8, while his other dad, a music critic in N.Y., has only reestablished contact with his son as a result of his own ... Weiterlesen

Dennis Cooper: Wrong

UK 2004, 165 pp., brochure, € 15.49
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

Available again: �Wrong�, Dennis Cooper's first collection of short stories, written over a period of ten years (1980-1989), centres on a homosexual rapist and sadistic murderer called Ray, who preys on the teenage boys that flock around a Los Angeles high school. The characters drift from story into another, in much the way people drift in real life: from that ... Weiterlesen

Mark Merlis: Man about Town

USA 2004, 360 pp., brochure, € 12.79
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

A congressional adviser and habitu� of a cozy circuit of bars inside the Beltway, Joel Lingeman never quite felt middle-aged. At least not until he was abandoned by his partner of fifteen years and suddenly thrust into a dating scene with men half his age and no discernible trace of love handles. But this unexpexted hole in his life inspires ... Weiterlesen

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