12-year-old Fee is a shy Korean American boy and a newly named section leader of the first sopranos in his local boys' choir. But when Fee learns how the director treats his section leaders, he is so ashamed he says nothing of the abuse, not even when Peter, his best friend, is in line to be next. When the director ... Weiterlesen

Paul Russell: Boys of Life

USA 2016, 322 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Cleis

Discover a compelling novel of innocence, betrayal, redemption and revenge in this re-publishing of �Boys of Life�. Tony is a young gay country boy with big dreams who's utterly bored with the tedium of Kentucky life. So it's no wonder he's seduced by the smooth-talking Carlos Reichart, who convinces the young man to run away with him to New York ... Weiterlesen

Ian McGuire: The North Water

USA 2016, 326 pp., pb., € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Scribner

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

Rabih Alameddine: The Angel of History

USA 2016, 296 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Corsair

Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic, �The Angel of History� follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life, from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco ... Weiterlesen

Raziel Reid: When Everything Feels Like the Movies

CAN/UK 2016, 163 pp., brochure, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Arsenal Pulp Press

School is just like a film set: there's The Crew, who make things happen, The Extras who fill the empty desks, and The Movie Stars, whom everyone wants tagged in their Facebook photos. But Jude doesn't fit in. He's not part of The Crew because he isn't about to do anything unless it's court-appointed. He's not an Extra because nothing ... Weiterlesen

Matthew Griffin: Hide

USA 2016, 272 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bloomsbury

Wendell and Frank meet at the end of World War II, when Frank returns home to their North Carolina town. Soon he's loitering around Wendell's shop, and the two come to understand their connection as love - a love that, in this time and place, can hold real danger. Cutting nearly all ties with the rest of the world, they ... Weiterlesen

Lori Ostlund: After the Parade

USA 2016, 340 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Scribner

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

Garth Greenwell: What Belongs to You

USA 2016, 204 pp., pb., € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Picador

On an unseasonably warm autumn day, a gay American teacher walks down a staircase beneath Sofia's National Palace of Culture, looking for sex. Among the stalls of a public bathroom he encounters Mitko, a charismatic young hustler. He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, and their trysts grow increasingly intimate and unnerving as the enigma ... Weiterlesen

Josef Winkler: Graveyard of Bitter Oranges

Transl. by Adrian Nathan West. USA/UK/AUS 2015, 465 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Contra Mundum Press

In 1979, Carinthian author Josef Winkler appeared on the literary horizon as if from nowhere, collecting numerous honors and the praise of the most prominent critical voices in Germany and Austria. Throughout the 1980s, he chronicled the malevolence, dissipation, and unregenerate Nazism endemic to Austrian village life in an increasingly trenchant and hallucinatory series of novels. At the decade's end, ... Weiterlesen

Mark Merlis: JD

USA 2015, 272 pp., hardbound, € 29.95
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University of Wisconsin Press

When a would-be biographer approaches Ascher's widow Martha, she delves for the first time into her husband's papers and all the secrets that come tumbling out of them. She finds journals that begin as a wisecracking chronicle of life at the fringes of the New York literary scene, then recount Ascher's sexual adventures in the pre-Stonewall gay underground and the ... Weiterlesen

Paul Russell: Immaculate Blue

USA 2015, 228 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Cleis

From the award-winning author of �The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov� comes �Immaculate Blue�, which explores the lives of four people - Anatole, Leigh, Chris, and Lydia - and their intermingled and unwinding desires. Set in upstate New York, the novel follows these characters as they achieve their aims in lives redolent with loss and hope, humor and sadness, union ... Weiterlesen

Bernard Cooper: My Avant-Garde Education

A Memoir. USA 2015, 251 pp., hardbound, € 26.95
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W. W. Norton

Growing up in the suburbs - confused about his sexuality, about his consumer-oriented world, about the death of his older brother - Bernard Cooper falls in love with Pop art and sets off for the California Institute of the Arts, the center of the burgeoning field of conceptual art, in this beguiling memoir. The most famous, and infamous, artists of ... Weiterlesen

James Purdy: Malcolm

USA 2015, 233 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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W. W. Norton

Introduced simply as �the boy on the bench�, the titular character of James Purdy's debut novel, �Malcolm� is a Candide-like figure who is taken under the wing of the �most famous astrologer of his period�, the worldly Professor Cox, and introduced to a series of increasingly bizarre characters and situations in this black comic fable. From an undertaker to a ... Weiterlesen

Stephen Greco: Now and Yesterday

USA 2014, 464 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Kensington

Set in New York's fast lane of advertising and media, Stephen Greco's new novel is a thoughtful and fascinating exploration of modern gay relationships, as a successful older gay man forms a friendship with a younger man that gradually turns to love. Peter, a 59-year-old gay advertising executive, lost the love of his life years ago, and since then he ... Weiterlesen

Andr� Aciman: Harvard Square

USA 2013, 292 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
W. W. Norton

1977: amid the lovely streets of Cambridge a young Harvard graduate student, a Jew from Egypt, longs more than anything to become an assimilated American and a professor of literature. He spends his days in a pleasant blur of 17th-century fiction, but when he meets a brash, charismatic Arab cab driver in a Harvard Square caf�, everything changes. Nicknamed Kalashnikov ... Weiterlesen

Peter Cameron: Coral Glynn

USA 2013, 210 pp., brochure, € 19.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Picador

Coral Glynn arrives at an isolated mansion deep in the English countryside early in the very wet spring of 1950 to nurse the elderly Edith Hart, who is dying of cancer. Hart House is also inhabited by Mrs Prence, the perpetually disgruntled housekeeper, and Major Clement Hart, Mrs Hart's war-ravaged son, who is struggling to endure his thwarted life. When ... Weiterlesen

John Irving: In One Person

UK 2013, 623 pp., Pb, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Black Swan

John Irving's 13th novel tells the outrageous story of bisexual novelist Billy Abbott, who comes of age in the uptight 1950s and explores his sexuality through the decades into the plague-ridden 1980s and finally to a more positive present day. Sexual confusion sets in early for Billy, simultaneously attracted to both the female librarian and golden boy wrestler Jacques Kittredge, ... Weiterlesen

Benjamin Alire S�enz: 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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