Andrew Sean Greer: The Story of a Marriage

UK 2008, 233 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Faber and Faber
It is 1953 and Pearlie, a dutiful housewife, finds herself living in the Sunset District of San Francisco, caring not only for her husband's fragile health but also for her son, who is afflicted with polio. Then, one Saturday morning, a stranger appears on her doorstep and everything changes. Her husband Holland and this man have had a gay relationship ... Weiterlesen

Abdellah Taïa: Salvation Army

Introduction by Edmund White. English by Frank Stock. USA 2009, 144 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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An autobiographical novel by turns naïve and cunning, funny and moving, this most recent work by Moroccan expatriate Abdellah Taïa is a major addition to the new French literature emerging from the North African Arabic diaspora. This is a coming-of-age novel that tells the story of Taïa's life with complete disclosure - from a childhood bound by family order and ... Weiterlesen

Elliot Tiber, Tom Monte: Taking Woodstock

A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life. USA 2009, 215 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Before there ws a Woodstock Concert, there was Elliot Tiber working to make a go of his parents' upstate New York motel. The Jewish clientele who had frequented the Catskills had discovered Florida, and the upstate tourist business was dying. To save his family's livelihood, Elliot put on plays and local festivals. In the process, he became the area's issuer ... Weiterlesen

William J. Mann: Object of Desire

USA 2009, 426 pp., hardbound, € 22.95
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Danny Fortunato seemed to have it all. He was cute, funny, smart - the hottest go-go boy in West Hollywood. When he danced on stage, all eyes were upon him and all men desired him. But something always kept Danny from ever really believing he was the golden boy that others said he was: a secret that he'd carried with ... Weiterlesen

Will Self: Dorian

UK 2009, 278 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin UK
Set against the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and '90s, Will Self's »Dorian« is a shameless reworking of our most significant myth of shamelessness. It is the summer of 1981 and Henry Wotton, uneasily gay, egregiously drug addicted, and queasily snobbish, is at the center of a Chelsea clique dedicated to timeless dissolution. His friend Baz Hallward, a sometime Warhol ... Weiterlesen

Thomas Mallon: Fellow Travelers

USA 2008, 368 pp.,brochure, € 19.95
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Knopf
A searing historical novel set in 1950s Washington, D.C. - a world dominated by personalities like Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, and Joe McCarthy - and infused with political drama, unexpected humor, and heartbreak: In a world of bare-knuckled ideology and secret dossiers, Timothy Laughlin, a recent college graduate and devout Catholic, is eager to join the crusade against Communism. An encounter ... Weiterlesen

Donald Windham: Two People

USA 2008, 181 pp., brochure, € 28.99
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Mondial
Neglected for over forty years, this gay novel has been republished in a more tolerant climate. »Two People« is about a love affair in Rome between a middle-aged American and a much younger Italian, but the word »people« in the title is both singular and plural, dealing with two cultures as well as with two individuals. First published in 1965, ... Weiterlesen
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Gary Zebrun: Only the Lonely

USA 2008, 207 pp., brochure, € 13.95
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Asim Zahid is headed to the University of Michigan, ready to bust out of Lackawanna, a rundown steel town outside of Buffalo, New York. But his dream of a bright future is derailed when his father dies and leaves behind two last wishes: to keep open the cherished Bethlehem Theater and to befriend Sonia, the old man's longtime mistress, now ... Weiterlesen

Neil Bartlett: Skin Lane

UK 2008, 344 pp., brochure, € 14.79
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Mr. Freeman (aka Mr. F), a 46-year-old fur-skinner, has worked in the same office at the same job in a quiet London backwater for 33 years. Then, in early January 1967, he starts to have disturbing dreams that feature the nude corpse of an attractive young man - tied up in his bathroom. The dream repeats itself several nights in ... Weiterlesen

Johnny Diaz: Miami Manhunt

USA 2008, 280 pp., brochure, € 13.29
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Score is the hottest gay bar in Miami's South Beach. And for friends Ray Martinez, Ted Williams, and Brian Anderson, there's no better way to start the weekend than by checking out the steady stream of beautiful Latin men coursing in and out of Score's doors. While Miami is home to the most gorgeous males ever created by god or ... Weiterlesen

Sándor Márai: The Rebels

USA 2008, 278 pp., brochure, € 11.59
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
This early novel from the rediscovered Hungarian writer Sándor Márai is a haunting story of a group of alienated boys on the cusp of adult life - and possibly death - during World War I. Summer 1918: four boys approaching graduation are living in a ghost town bereft of fathers, uncles, and older brothers, all of whom are off fighting ... Weiterlesen

Michael T. Ford: Full Circle

USA 2007, 438 pp., brochure, € 13.29
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Ford's new novel lovingly explores the lives of three men in a saga spanning almost 60 years. Professor Ned Brummel is living happily with his partner of 12 years in small-town Maine when he receives a call from his old friend Jack telling him that their friend Andy is very ill and possibly near death. The news shatters the peace ... Weiterlesen

Timothy Conigrave: Holding the Man

USA 2007, 308 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Sometimes there are second acts, when Timothy Conigrave falls in love with the captain of the football team, John Caleo, the two embark on a passionate journey of love, betrayal and forgiveness that was meant to last 15 years. With honesty and insight, »Holding the Man« explores the highs and lows of their life partnership: the intimacy, constraints, temptations, and ... Weiterlesen

William J. Mann: Men Who Love Men

USA 2007, 314 pp., hardback, € 22.69
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
For Jeff O'Brien, life has finally fallen into place. He's now a bestselling author, living in Provincetown full-time with Lloyd Griffith, his longtime lover and soon-to-be legal husband. Forty has nothing on Jeff and Lloyd - they're the still-sexy poster boys for settled, contented domesticity. They seem to have everything, in fact - even a foster son, Jeff's 10-year-old nephew, ... Weiterlesen

John Weir: What I Did Wrong

USA 2006, 243 pp., brochure, € 13.89
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42-year-old novelist and College professor Tom, who survived his 20s and 30s in a New York ravaged by AIDS, encounters a lifetime of demons during one jam-packed day in May 2000. Tom's straight boyhood friend Richie, thinking he may be out of his depth on an Internet-arranged date, is bringing Tom along to chaperone. As the two navigate the five ... Weiterlesen

Allison Burnett: The House Beautiful

USA 2006, 231 pp., brochure, € 14.79
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
B.K. Troop is a middle-aged, witty, bipolar, alcoholic homosexual living alone in a cramped New York apartment. When his best friend, Sasha Buchwitz, dies following a much-needed round of electroconvulsive therapy, she leaves him her Manhattan brownstone, changing B.K.'s life forever. To afford the property tax, he turns his new home into a colony for young, struggling artists, to whom ... Weiterlesen

Kim Powers: The History of Swimming

USA 2006, 291 pp., hardcover, € 23.90
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
This book »The History of Swimming« details author Kim Powers' frantic search for his twin brother Tim - both his best friend and his greatest enemy - who disappears all of a sudden from Manhattan one weekend in his late twenties. Kim - almost mystically - imagines that the clues to Tim's whereabouts have been planted in a series of ... Weiterlesen

Brian Sloan: Tale of Two Summers

USA/UK/CAN/AUS 2006, 245 pp., hardbound, € 15.69
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
A 10-year best friendship is put to the test when Chuck and Hal spend their first summer apart falling for two questionable mates: Chuck, a 15-year-old supremely comfortable in his hetero (though adolescently horny) skin, is a major fan of Broadway musicals who is rooming at summer theater school, with admirable tolerance, with a campy queer boy. His best friend ... Weiterlesen