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Thema: Lesben und Schwule in ihren Familien



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Sarah Schulman: The Child

Sarah Schulman: The Child

USA 2007, 282 pp., hardbound, € 22.59
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Structured like a classic novel of legal suspense, »The Child« explores what happens when Stew, a lonely 15-year-old boy, looks for and finds an adult boyfriend online. In short order his lover is arrested in an Internet pedophilia sting and Stew's world is turned upside down. He's exposed to his family and community, leaving the young outcast to fend for ... Weiterlesen

Roberto C. Ferrari: Pierce

Roberto C. Ferrari: Pierce

USA/UK 2007, 370 pp., brochure, € 19.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Graduate student Leo Vasari's life was shattered when his lover Matt died in a car accident. Matt comes from a tragic and dysfunctional past, and suffers demons that have haunted him since early childhood. Exactly one year after Matt's death, Millie, Matt's mother and Leo's close friend, tries to kill herself. Leo, still mourning his loss, must somehow unravel the ... Weiterlesen

Patrick Ryan: Send Me

Patrick Ryan: Send Me

USA 2007, 312 pp., brochure, € 12.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Teresa Kerrigan, ungrounded by two divorces, tries to keep herself together. But her ex-husbands linger in the background while her four children spin away to their own separate futures, each carrying the baggage of a complex family history. Matt serves as caretaker to the ailing father who abandoned him as a child, while his wild teenage sister, Karen, hides herself ... Weiterlesen

Wade Rouse: America's Boy

Wade Rouse: America's Boy

USA 2007, 341 pp., brochure, € 13.89
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Growing up gay in the Missouri Ozarks in the 60s and 70s, the author was always a bit of an outsider. While some of his roughneck peers wore Wrangler jeans and had stylish crew cuts, Wade feathered his golden hair and sported a handmade leatherwork belt bearing his unfortunate childhood nickname, Wee-Pooh. Wade was hopelessly out of step with the ... Weiterlesen

Rigoberto González: Butterfly Boy

Rigoberto González: Butterfly Boy

USA 2006, 207 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
University of Wisconsin Press
Growing up among poor migrant Mexican farmworkers, Rigoberto González faces the pressure of coming-of-age as a gay man in a culture that prizes machismo. Losing his mother when he is twelve, González must then confront his father's abandonment and an abiding sense of cultural estrangement, both from his adopted home in the United States and from a Mexican birthright. His ... Weiterlesen

Bruce Benderson: The Romanian

Bruce Benderson: The Romanian

UK 2006, 366 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Snowbooks
I was deeply impressed by reading »The Romanian« on a train from Vienna to Munich. I could hardly put it away and felt very sorry when I had to stop, having reached my destination. The novel has already won the French »Prix de flore« in 2004. And this autobiographical book may win even more. The American author is sent to ... Weiterlesen

Nick Nolan: Strings Attached

Nick Nolan: Strings Attached

USA 2006, 291 pp., brochure, € 17.40
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
17 year-old Jeremy Tyler is the puppet of Tiffany, his alcoholic mother. But when she is forced to rehab, Jeremy moves from the slums to the cliff-top estate of Katherine Tyler and Bill Mortson. Stunned by the wealth surrounding him, Jeremy thinks he's landed in paradise until the couple begins dictating his every move. Jeremy tries to fit in with ... Weiterlesen

Cynthia Tyler: Shadow Work

Cynthia Tyler: Shadow Work

USA 2006, 193 pp., brochure, € 15.69
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Chris Cameron, a psychotherapist, moves forward after she has overcome the grief of losing her life partner to murder. Now she finds herself simultaneously falling for a cop named Linda Vasquez, facing new challenges at work, and coming to terms with a world where bigger, better, shinier, louder - the shorthand for the Orwellian superficiality of the new millenium - ... Weiterlesen

Aaron Hamburger: Faith for Beginners

Aaron Hamburger: Faith for Beginners

USA 2006, 355 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
In the summer of 2000, Israel teeters between total war and total peace. Similarly on edge, Helen Michaelson, a respectable suburban housewife from Michigan, has brought her ailing husband and rebellious college-age son, Jeremy, to Jerusalem. She hopes the journey will inspire Jeremy to reconnect with his faith and find meaning in his life - or, at least, get rid ... Weiterlesen

Sulayman X: Adventures of a Bird-Shit Foreigner

Sulayman X: Adventures of a Bird-Shit Foreigner

USA 2006, 209 pp., brochure, € 13.89
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
The portrait of an American-Thai young man struggling with his sexual identity, with his family, and with the world at large: Isa is the product of a GI from Kansas City and a prostitute Thai mother. But - different from the global image of a tolerant society - Thai society can be cruel to those not of pure breeding - ... Weiterlesen

William J. Mann: All American Boy

William J. Mann: All American Boy

USA 2006, 360 pp., brochure, € 15.20
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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

Bruce Benderson: The Romanian

Bruce Benderson: The Romanian

UK 2006, 366 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Benderson was wandering Budapest researching sex clubs for Nerve.com when he fell in love. Romulus, a Romanian street hustler, was a sleekly attractive, uneducated (though clever) 24-year old, into soccer, TV and swapping dirty stories with his buddies. Living in a largely homophobic culture, Romulus didn't consider himself anything but heterosexual, even as he spent months having sex with Benderson. ... Weiterlesen

David Leavitt: The Lost Language of Cranes

David Leavitt: The Lost Language of Cranes

UK/USA 2005, 308 pp., pb, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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

Michael Chabon: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Michael Chabon: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

USA 2005, 297 pp. + 15 P.S. on Author & Book, brochure, € 12.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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

Joe Babcock: The Tragedy of Miss Geneva Flowers

Joe Babcock: The Tragedy of Miss Geneva Flowers

USA 2005, 342 pp., brochure, € 14.79
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Like many gay sixteen-year-olds, Erick Taylor dreams of being a star. But that's a tall order when you're unpopular, stuck in Catholic school, and your Bible-thumping parents make life a holy terror for a closeted gay kid. All of this changes in a snap, however, when Erick meets Chloe, a »grandiloquist« drag queen. With a glam rock makeover and a ... Weiterlesen

Augusten Burroughs: Running with Scissors

Augusten Burroughs: Running with Scissors

USA 2005, 315 pp., Pb, € 18.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
SMP
This is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. So at the age of 12, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor living with the doctor's bizarre family, and befriending a pedophile who resided in ... Weiterlesen

David Sedaris: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

David Sedaris: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

USA 2004, 245 pp., pb, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn't it? In his new collection of ... Weiterlesen

Heidi J. Schmidt: The Bride of Catastrophe

Heidi J. Schmidt: The Bride of Catastrophe

USA 2004, 442 pp., brochur, € 13.89
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
»The Bride of Catastrophe« is the story of Beatrice Wolfe's quest to escape the gothic eccentricity of her family and find an authentic identity of her own. Leaving the confines of the farm where she grew up, Beatrice falls under the spell of her college literature tutor, an exuberant lesbian called Phillipa, who will have a greater influence on her ... Weiterlesen

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