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
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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
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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

André 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 café, everything changes. Nicknamed Kalashnikov ... Weiterlesen

Peter Cameron: Coral Glynn

USA 2013, 210 pp., brochure, € 19.99
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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 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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Edmund White: Jack Holmes and His Friend

UK 2012, 392 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bloomsbury
Jack Holmes is in love. Sadly for him, his feelings are not returned, at least not the way he would like them to be. It doesn't look as if there will ever be anyone else he falls for. The other men he takes to bed never stay for long. Jack's friend Will Wright comes from old stock, has aspirations to ... Weiterlesen

Jody Horowitz: Big Things

D 2012, 214 pp., brochure, € 16.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bruno Gmünder
When David lands in Los Angeles with no money and little prospect of publishing his first novel, he takes a succession of dead-end jobs. Soon he realizes that he has to do something totally different if he wants to get ahead. So he decides to think big - and cashes in on his largest and most personal asset. »Big Things« ... Weiterlesen

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

Michael Cunningham: A Home at the End of the World

UK 2012, 344 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin UK
Michael Cunningham's celebrated novel is the story two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself, and Bobby, hip, dark, and inarticulate. In New York after college, Bobby moves in with Jonathan and his roommate, Clare, a veteran of the city's erotic wars. Bobby and Clare fall in love, scuttling the plans of Jonathan, who is gay, to father ... Weiterlesen

Neel Mukherjee: A Life Apart

UK 2011, 402 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Corsair
Ritwik Ghosh, 22 and recently orphaned, finds the chance to start a new life when he arrives in England from Calcutta. But to do so, he must revisit his past and make sense of his relationship with his mother - scarred, abusive and all-consuming. When Oxford brings little of the salvation Ritwik is looking for, he moves to London, disappearing ... Weiterlesen

Michael Cunningham: By Nightfall

USA 2011, 228 pp., Pb, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Picador
Peter and Rebecca Harris: midforties denizens of Manhattan's Soho, nearing the apogee of committed careers in the arts - he a dealer, she an editor. With a spacious loft, a college-age daughter in Boston, and lively friends, they are admirable, enviable contemporary urbanites with every reason, it seems, to be happy. Then Rebecca's much younger look-alike brother, Ethan (known in ... Weiterlesen