Sarah Schulman: The Cosmopolitans

USA 2016, 296 pp., hardbound, € 18.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Feminist Press
A modern retelling of Balzac's classic »Cousin Bette« by one of America's most prolific lesbian writers. Earl, a black, gay actor working in a meatpacking plant, and Bette, a white secretary, have lived next door to each other in the same Greenwich Village apartment building for thirty years. Shamed and disowned by their families, both found refuge in New York ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: A Boy's Own Story

UK 2016, 256 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Picador
Originally published in 1982 as the first of Edmund White's trilogy of autobiographical novels, »A Boy's Own Story« became an instant classic for its pioneering portrayal of homosexuality and gay life in American fiction. The book's unnamed narrator, growing up during the 1950s, is beset by aloof parents, a cruel sister, and relentless mocking from his peers, compelling him to ... Weiterlesen

Alan Hollinghurst: The Swimming-Pool Library

UK 2015, 415 pp.,brochure, € 17.95
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Vintage
A literary sensation and bestseller both in England and America, »The Swimming-Pool Library« is an enthralling, darkly erotic novel of homosexuality before the scourge of AIDS; an elegy, possessed of chilling clarity, for ways of life that can no longer be lived with impunity. Impeccably composed and meticulously particular in its observation of everything, it focuses on the friendship of ... Weiterlesen

Katie Gilmartin: Blackmail, My Love

A Murder Mystery. USA 2014, 312 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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Cleis
San Francisco, 1951. Josie O'Conner's gay brother is nowhere to be found. His friends claim that just before he disappeared he became a rat, informing the cops on the bar community's nascent resistance to raids, graft and brutality. What's a loving sister to do? Josie sets off to clear his name, halt the blackmailers, and exact justice for the mounting ... Weiterlesen

Sanford Friedman: Totempole

USA 2014, 280 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Totempole is Sanford Friedman's radical gay coming-of-age novel, featuring Stephen Wolfe, a young Jewish boy growing up in New York City and its environs during the Depression and war years. In eight discrete chapters, which trace Stephen's evolution from a two-year-old boy to a twenty-four-year-old man, Friedman describes with psychological acuity and great empathy Stephen's intellectual, moral, and sexual maturation. ... Weiterlesen

Neil Bartlett: The Disappearance Boy

UK 2014, 288 pp., hardback, € 27.95
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Bloomsbury
23-year-old gay Reggie Rainbow is a stagehand living at the heart of the performance. He's found the perfect profession for someone who likes to keep himself to himself. It's his job to make sure that some things stay out of sight and out of mind. He's an angry gay young man who treads the backstage corridors of down-at-heel theatres for ... Weiterlesen

William Cross: The Abergavenny Witch Hunt

An Account of the Prosecution of Over Twenty Homosexuals in a Small Welsh Town in 1942. UK 2014, 250 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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In 1942, the Welsh town of Abergavenny was scandalised by disclosures after the arrest of over twenty youths and men on charges relating to homosexual activity and corrupting boys. George Rowe, the 40-year-old manager of Abergavenny's Coliseum cinema was at the centre of a Police enquiry after one of the page-boys complained about being molested. The boy's complaint turned into ... Weiterlesen

Bruno Barreto (R): Reaching for the Moon

Brasilien 2013, portug. OF, engl. SF, engl. UT, 118 Min., € 19.99
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Biopic about the American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop and her passionate, real-life love affair with Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Based on the bestselling novel »Rare and Commonplace Flowers«, the film follows Bishop as a creative block prompts her to accept the invitation of a college friend to stay with her and her partner, Lota, on a sprawling ... Weiterlesen

James McCourt: Lasting City

The Anatomy of Nostalgia. USA/UK 2014, 323 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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Liveright
Enjoined by his dying mother to »tell everything«, James McCourt was liberated by this deathbed wish to do just that. »Lasting City« is an operatic recollection that braids a nostalgic portrait of old-Irish New York with a boy's funny, gutter-snipe precocity and hardly innocent coming-of-age in the 1940s and 1950s. A literary outlaw in the poetic tradition of Verlaine and ... 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

Jaime Harker: Middlebrow Queer

Christopher Isherwood in America. USA 2013, 203 pp, brochure, € 29.99
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University of Minnesota Press
How could one write about gay life for the mainstream public in Cold War America? Many midcentury gay American writers, hampered by external and internal censors, never managed to do it. But Christopher Isherwood did, and what makes his accomplishment more remarkable is that while he was negotiating his identity as a gay writer, he was reinventing himself as an ... Weiterlesen

Barbara Vine: The Child's Child

UK 2013, 279 pp., pb, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin UK
When their grandmother dies, Grace and Andrew Easton inherit her sprawling, book-filled London home. Rather than sell it, the adult siblings move in together, splitting the numerous bedrooms and studies. The arrangement is unusual, but ideal for the affectionate pair - until the day Andrew brings home a new boyfriend, the devilishly handsome novelist, James Derain. When he and Andrew ... Weiterlesen

Simon Raven: Alms For Oblivion Volume II

UK 2012, 884 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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

Violette Leduc: Thérèse and Isabelle

UK 2012, 134 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Charged with metaphors, alternating with precise descriptions of sensations and lesbian relationships, »Thérèse and Isabelle« was censored by its publisher in France in 1954, first published in a truncated version in 1966 and not until 2000 in its uncensored edition, as Violette Leduc intended. »I'm trying to express as exactly, as minutely as possible the sensations of physical love. There's ... Weiterlesen

Craig M. Loftin (ed.): Letters to ONE

Gay and Lesbian Voices from the 1950s and 1960s. USA 2012, 238 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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SUNY
Long before the Stonewall riots, ONE magazine - the first openly gay magazine in the United States - offered a positive viewpoint of homosexuality and encouraged gay people to resist discrimination and persecution. Despite a limited monthly circulation of only a few thousand, the magazine influenced the substance, character, and tone of the early American gay rights movement. This book ... Weiterlesen

Alan Hollinghurst: The Stranger's Child

UK 2012, 564 pp., pb, € 19.95
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Picador
In late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at Two Acres, the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for all the Sawles, but it is on George's 16-year-old sister Daphne that it will have the most lasting impact, when Cecil writes her a ... Weiterlesen

Scotty Bowers: Full Service

My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars. UK 2012, 288 pp. with numerous b/w photos, brochure, € 19.95
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Atlantic
Newly discharged from the Marines after WWII, Scotty Bowers arrived in Hollywood in 1946. Young, charismatic, and strikingly handsome, especially in his military uniform, he quickly caught the eye of many of the town's stars and starlets. He began sleeping with some himself, and connecting others with his coterie of young, attractive, and sexually free-spirited friends. In his 30 years ... Weiterlesen