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

S�ndor M�rai: The Rebels

USA 2008, 278 pp., brochure, € 11.59
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This early novel from the rediscovered Hungarian writer S�ndor M�rai 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
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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
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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
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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
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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

Jay Quinn: Back Where He Started

USA 2006, 271 pp., brochure, € 14.79
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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

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