James Purdy: Eustace Chisholm and the Works

USA 2015, 277 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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W. W. Norton
No Purdy work has dazzled contemporary writers more than this haunting tale of unrequited love in an indifferent world. A seedy Depression-era boardinghouse in Chicago plays host to a game of emotional chairs in a novel initially condemned for its frank depiction of abortion, homosexuality, and life on the margins of American society. A cast of characters displaced by economic ... Weiterlesen

Sarah Waters: The Paying Guests

UK 2014, 576 pp., brochure, € 21.95
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Little Brown
Der Erste Weltkrieg hat die britische Gesellschaft schwer erschüttert, die Jahre nach dem eigentlich gewonnenen Krieg bringen den Niedergang vieler vormals fest in der Oberschicht etablierter Familien, sei es alter Geburts- oder städtischer Geldadel. So hat es auch die Wrays getroffen, die verwitwete alte Mrs Wray und ihre 25jährige ledige Tochter Frances bewohnen zwar noch das eigene Haus in einem ... Weiterlesen
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Sarah Waters: The Paying Guests

USA 2015, 576 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Hachette
It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa, a large silent house now bereft of brothers, husband and even servants, life is about to be transformed, as impoverished widow Mrs Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in ... Weiterlesen

John Rechy: City of Night

UK 2009, 384 pp., pb., € 19.95
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Grove Press
When John Rechy's explosive first novel appeared in 1963, it marked a radical departure in fiction, and gave voice to a subculture that had never before been revealed with such acuity. It earned comparisons to Genet and Kerouac, even as Rechy was personally attacked by scandalized reviewers. Nevertheless, the book became an international bestseller, and fifty years later (2013), it ... Weiterlesen

Simon Raven: Alms For Oblivion Volume III

UK 2012, 884 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Vintage
The »Alms for Oblivion« sequence - an extraordinary series of murders, suicides, affairs, fighting, fires and at least one explosion, blackmail, gambling, illness, madness, lots of parties and plenty of sex - draws to a close with two novels about death and retribution. But Simon Raven's achievement and the conflicted, colourful or uniquely vile characters he created are not easily ... Weiterlesen

Simon Raven: Alms For Oblivion Volume II

UK 2012, 884 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Vintage
Simon Raven's sequence of colourful and funny novels about the English upper-class misbehaving continues against a backdrop of intrigue in Athens, radicalism in Cambridge, turmoil in India and movie-making in Corfu. Dazzlingly witty and thoroughly depraved, Raven's world is also a dark mirror to our times - one that is sure to make you blush, shriek, laugh out loud and ... Weiterlesen

Simon Raven: Alms For Oblivion Volume I

UK 2012, 884 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Vintage
Alms for Oblivion is a series of ten novels, all telling separate stories but at the same time linked together by the characters they have in common: schoolboys and businessmen, writers and soldiers, prostitutes and patient wives, actresses and models. In the first four novels Raven's wayward band of upper-class anti-heroes lurch from debauched parties to rehearsals for nuclear war; ... Weiterlesen

Bret Easton Ellis: Imperial Bedrooms

UK 2010, 176 pp., brochure, € 19.60
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In 1985, the author shocked with »Less Than Zero« - chronicling the frightening consequences of unmitigated hedonism within the ranks of the ethically bereft youth of 80s L.A. 25 years later, the author returns to those same characters, but now, they face a great period of disaffection: their own middle age. Clay seems to have moved on - he's become ... Weiterlesen

Mary McCarthy: The Group

UK 2009, 437 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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»The Group« is a sharply-pointed satire of upper-class New England society which follows the post-college lives of eight Vassar graduates, class of '33. Helena was registered for Vassar at birth. Pokey forged her mother's signature on her college application. Out in the »real« world, Dottie loses her virginity to a »bad sort« but discovers that she enjoys sex, while Kay ... Weiterlesen

L.M. Ross: The Moanin' After

USA 2008, 340 pp., brochure, € 12.39
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David Richmond is a lost dancer struggling to reclaim his equilibrium after his core rhythm has been taken away by loneliness, disease and the death of his best friend. It is a look at his journey from promiscuous party animal to a sober, mentally stable adult by way of analysis. This is also a deep, wistful, brave and harrowing account ... Weiterlesen

Alan Hollinghurst: The Spell

UK 2006, 257 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Vintage
»The Spell« is a comedy of sexual manners that follows the interlocking affairs of four men: Robin, an architect in his late forties, who is trying to build an idyllic life in Dorset with his younger lover, Justin, Robin's 22 year old son Danny, a volatile beauty who lives for clubbing and casual sex, and the shy Alex, who is ... Weiterlesen

Bruce Benderson: The Romanian

UK 2006, 366 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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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

Bruce Benderson: The Romanian

UK 2006, 366 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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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

Michael Cunningham: Specimen Days

USA 2006, 333 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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In each section of Michael Cunningham's bold novel we encounter the same group of characters: a young boy, a man, and a woman. »In the Machine« is a ghost story that takes place at the height of the industrial revolution as human beings confront the alienating realities of the new machine age. »The Children's Crusade,« set in the early twenty-first ... Weiterlesen

Tim Ashley: The Island of Mending Hearts

USA 2004, 260 pp., brochure, € 15.99
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»Straight« but suicidal Londoner Michael plans to throw himself from a cruise ship, but procrastinates so long he ends up sailing all the way to the gay mecca of Key West. Once onshore, he finds a city with a fascinating history, though soon enough his self-destructiveness means that he embarks an a series of brutal and anonymous sexual encounters. But ... Weiterlesen

Michael T. Ford: Last Summer

USA 2004, 424 pp., brochure, € 0.00
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Josh has always been a romantic - until his lover Doug announced that he'd had an affair. Josh impulsively heads to the cape for a few days - long enough to figure out where his relationship might be going. But his trip to P-Town will bring bigger changes than he ever imagined. Provincetown holds special appeal for those who come ... Weiterlesen
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Anthony Burgess: Earthly Powers

UK 2004, 648 pp. brochure, € 24.95
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Available again in paperback: Anthony Burgess's epic masterpiece follows the lives of two men who each represent different kinds of earthly power. Kenneth Toomey is an eminent novelist, a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into luxurious old age as a celebrity of dubious notoriety. Don Carlo Campanati is a man of God, who rises through the Vatican ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Isherwood: Goodbye to Berlin

UK 1998, 252 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Vintage
»I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking«, are the famous lines on the first page. This a semiautobiographical account of Isherwood's time in 1930s Berlin. Written as a connected series of six short stories the book, first published in 1939, is a brilliant evocation of the decadence and repression, glamour and sleaze of Berlin ... Weiterlesen