James Purdy: Malcolm

USA 2015, 233 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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
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 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

Nicholas Frankel (ed.): Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

An Annotated, Uncensored Edition. USA 2011, 295 pp. illustrated, hardbound, € 69.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Harvard University Press
»The Picture of Dorian Gray« altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited. It heralded the end of a repressive Victorianism, and after its publication, literature had a different look. Yet the »Dorian Gray« that Victorians never knew was even more daring than the novel the British press condemned as »vulgar«, »unclean«, »poisonous«, »discreditable«, and »a sham«. Now, more ... Weiterlesen

Kriss Rudolph: L.A. Affair

D 2011, 207 S., Broschur, € 15.32
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bruno Gmünder
Ben, a charming but chaotic guy from the German capital, makes a dream come true and moves close to where his friend Adam lives. He became acquainted with that hot dude from California via the Internet. However, Adam suddenly gets cold feet and doesn't turn up at the airport as promised. Contrary to the well-meant advice from his best friend ... Weiterlesen

K.M. Soehnlein: Robin and Ruby

USA 2011, 295pp., brochure, € 12.39
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
20-year-old, Robin MacKenzie is waiting for his life to start. Then, one hot June weekend, Robin gets dumped by his boyfriend and quickly hits the road with his best friend George to find his teenaged sister, Ruby, who's vanished from a party at the Jersey Shore. For years, the friendship with George has been the most solid thing in Robin's ... Weiterlesen

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

Kathleen Winter: Annabel

USA 2010, 465 pp., brochure, € 15.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
This debut novel is an intimate portrait of the family of a mixed-gendered child born into a remote, blue-collar seaside town in Eastern Canada. In 1968, into the devastating, beautiful landscape of Labrador, a child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor fully girl, but both at once. Only three people are privy to the ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: Chaos

UK 2010, 196 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
What happens when a life implodes? When a respected older man, a product of the liberated 1970s, is incapable of cleaning up his act in the 21st century? When he pursues sex with a rabidity his body and his reputation can no longer sustain? Chaos results. In this novella White takes an unsparing look at gay midlife. Here, nostalgia has ... Weiterlesen