Miranda July: The First Bad Man

USA 2015, 276 pp., brochure, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Cheryl, a tightly-wound, vulnerable woman lives alone, with a perpetual lump in her throat. She is haunted by a baby boy she met when she was six, who sometimes recurs as other people's babies. Cheryl is also obsessed with Phillip, a philandering board member at the women's self-defense non-profit where she works. She believes they've been making love for many ... 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

Jeanette Winterson: Sexing the Cherry

UK 2014, 169 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Vintage
»Sexing the Cherry« celebrates the power of the imagination as it playfully juggles with our perception of history and reality. It is a story about love and sex; lies and truths; and twelve dancing princesses who lived happily ever after, but not with their husbands.

Sonwabiso Ngcowa: In Search of Happiness

South Africa 2014, 152 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Nana is fifteen when she travels from her village in the Eastern Cape to the city. She is over joyed to be reunited with her family, even if they are living in a tiny shack. But she struggles to fit in at her new school, and she is shocked at the violence shown to chino and Agnes, her Zimbabwean neighbours. ... Weiterlesen

Pippa Goldschmidt: The Falling Sky

UK 2014, 256 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
A blackly comic campus satire combined with a heart-breaking family mystery, »The Falling Sky« mixes fiction and astronomy into a moving narrative. Jeanette is a young, lesbian post-doctoral researcher who has dedicated her life to studying astronomy. Struggling to compete in a prestigious university department dominated by egos and incompetents, and caught in a cycle of brief and unsatisfying affairs ... 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

Judith Schalansky: The Giraffe's Neck

Transl. by Shaun Whiteside. UK 2014, 213 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bloomsbury
Adaptation is everything, something Frau Lohmark is well aware of as the biology teacher at the Charles Darwin High School in a country backwater of the former East Germany. It is the beginning of the new school year, but, as people look west in search of work and opportunities, it's future begins to be in doubt. Frau Lohmark has no ... Weiterlesen

Ali Smith: Artful

UK 2013, 240 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Penguin UK
Adapted from four lectures given by lesbian author Ali Smith at Oxford University, »Artful« is a tidal wave of ideas in four thematically organised bursts of thought: »On Time«, »On Form«, »On Edge« and »On Offer and on Reflection«. Refusing to be tied down to either fiction or the essay form, »Artful« is narrated by a character who is haunted ... Weiterlesen

André Aciman: Harvard Square

USA 2013, 292 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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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

Edmund White: Jack Holmes and His Friend

UK 2012, 393 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bloomsbury
Edmund White's »A Boy's Own Story« was the first gay book I've ever read as such. And to be honest I didn't like it much. Even though I grew up in a comparably provincial surrounding as the young guy in »A Boy's Own Story« does (well, not the American Midwest but rural Bavaria - which is certainly close) it was ... 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