Löwenherz - die Buchhandlung in Wien. Fachbuchhandlung mit schwulem und lesbischem Sortiment.
 
 

Thema: Lebensgeschichten



Seiten zu diesem Thema: < zurück  1 2 3 weiter >
M. T. Pope: Don't Ask, Don't Tell

M. T. Pope: Don't Ask, Don't Tell

USA 2012, 482 pp., brochure, € 13.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Urban
Private Kyle Sullivan is a happily married man who thinks he's left his homosexual experiences in his past. What he didn't count on was the high-ranking officer who forces a sexual relationship with him. - After breaking off a relationship with her abusive girlfriend, Lauren Burns has finally made her dreams come true by becoming a member of the U.S. ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: Jack Holmes and His Friend

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

Charles Rowan Beye: My Husband and My Wives

Charles Rowan Beye: My Husband and My Wives

A Gay Man's Odyssey. USA 2012, 257 pp., hardbound, € 23.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
This is the memoir of a man looking back over eight tumultuous decades at the complications brought on by the discovery, during adolescence, of his attraction to other men. The ordeal of remaining true to what his libido tells him is right, in the midst of a disapproving and sometimes hostile society, is one side of his story. Another is ... Weiterlesen

Timothy Mo: Pure

Timothy Mo: Pure

UK 2012, 388 pp., hardbound, € 27.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Turnaround
Anglo-Chinese author Timothy Mo - with a string of Booker Prize nominations - slipped off the radar when he moved to the Far East and started to self-publish his work. »Pure« - his new book - is a morally ambiguous romp about Islamic jihad in South East Asia as seen through the eyes of a rumbustious Thai ladyboy. Snooky, a ... Weiterlesen

Christine Benvenuto: Sex Changes

Christine Benvenuto: Sex Changes

A Memoir of Marriage, Gender, and Moving on. USA 2013, 295 pp., brochure, € 15.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
SMP
What do you do when the other woman is your husband? Christine and her husband had been married for 20 years and we raising their three children in a beautiful New England town. One night in bed he turned to her and said, »I'm thinking constantly about my gender«, adding that he was unhappy in his body and wanted to ... Weiterlesen

Joy Landin: Through the Door of Life

Joy Landin: Through the Door of Life

A Jewish Journey Between Genders. USA 2012, 255 pp., hardbound, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
University of Wisconsin Press - Living Out
Professor Jay Ladin made headlines around the world when, after years of teaching literature at Yeshiva University, he returned after a year of »involuntary research leave« to the orthodox Jewish campus as a woman - Joy Ladin. In this book, Joy Ladin takes readers inside her transition as she changed genders and, in the process, created a new self. With ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: Jack Holmes and His Friend

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

Edmund de Waal: The Hare With Amber Eyes

Edmund de Waal: The Hare With Amber Eyes

USA 2011, 354 pp, pb, € 15.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Vintage
264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great uncle Iggie's Tokyo apartment. When he later inherited the »netsuke«, they unlocked a story far larger and more dramatic than he could ever have imagined. From a burgeoning empire in Odessa to fin de ... Weiterlesen

Mikey Walsh: Gypsy Boy on the Run

Mikey Walsh: Gypsy Boy on the Run

UK 2011, 306 pp, pb, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Hodder and Stoughton
The sequel to Mikey Walsh's coming-of-age novel »Gypsy Boy«: Mikey is a Romany Gypsy and grew up living in a caravan on sites across the UK. He adored his family and the rich and vibrant Romany culture he'd inherited. Eventually though he was forced to make a heartbreaking decision - to stay and keep secrets, or escape and find somewhere ... Weiterlesen

Elliot Tiber: Palm Trees on the Hudson

Elliot Tiber: Palm Trees on the Hudson

A True Story of the Mob, Judy Garland and Interior Decorating. USA 2011, 183 pp., hardbound, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Square One
»Palm Trees on the Hudson« is the hilarious prequel to Elliot Tiber's bestseller »Taking Woodstock.« Before Elliot found financial success by bringing Woodstock Ventures to his upstate motel, he was one of Manhattan s leading interior designers. Then Elliot's career came to a halt due to a floating society party, Judy Garland, and the Mob: Elliot's glamorous society event turned ... Weiterlesen

James C. Hormel and Erin Martin: Fit to Serve

James C. Hormel and Erin Martin: Fit to Serve

Reflections on a Secret Life. USA 2011, 288 pp., illustrated, hardbound, € 22.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Skyhorse
James Hormel - a man who grew up feeling different not only because his family built the SPAM meatpacking »empire« and lived in the only mansion in his small Midwestern town, but because he was gay at a time when homosexuality was not mentioned, never mind accepted. Outwardly, he tried to live up to the life his parents wanted for ... Weiterlesen

Scott Pasfield: Gay in America

Scott Pasfield: Gay in America

USA 2011, 224 pp. with colour photographs, hardbound, € 44.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
In this photographic survey of gay men in America, stereotypes are laid to rest and an intimate, honest picture of contemporary gay life is revealed through personal portraits and narratives. Photographer Scott Pasfield traveled 54,000 miles across all 50 states over a 3-year span gathering stories and documenting the lives of 140 gay men from all walks of life. At ... Weiterlesen

Bill Clegg: Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man: A Memoir

Bill Clegg: Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man: A Memoir

USA 2010, 222 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bill Clegg had a thriving business as a literary agent, a supportive partner, trusting colleagues, and loving friends when he walked away from his world and embarked on a two-month crack binge. He had been released from rehab nine months earlier, and his relapse would cost him his home, his money, his career, and very nearly his life. What is ... Weiterlesen

Timothy Conigrave: Holding the Man

Timothy Conigrave: Holding the Man

USA 2010, 308 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
When Timothy Conigrave falls in love with the captain of the football team, John Caleo, at their Catholic all-boys school in Melbourne, the two embark on a passionate journey of love, betrayal and forgiveness. This bestselling true story is at once sexy, romantic, funny and sad - a masterpiece of authentic emotion that you won't forget. Winner of the United ... Weiterlesen

Derek Jarman: Dancing Ledge

Derek Jarman: Dancing Ledge

USA 2010, 256 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
University of Minnesota Press
From his sexual awakening in postwar England to life in the sixties and beyond, Derek Jarman tells his life story with the in-your-face immediacy that became his trademark style in both his films and writing. Accompanied by nearly one hundred photographs of Jarman, his friends, lovers, and inspirations, the candid accounts in »Dancing Ledge« provide intimate and incredibly vivid glimpses ... Weiterlesen

Staceyann Chin: The Other Side of Paradise

Staceyann Chin: The Other Side of Paradise

A Memoir. USA 2010, 282 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Scribner
No one knew Steceyann's mother was pregnant until a dangerously small baby was born on the floor of her grandmother's house. Staceyann's mother didn't want her, and her father was not present. No one, except her grandmother, thought Staceyann would survive. It was her grandmother who nurtured and protected and provided for Staceyann and her older brother in the early ... Weiterlesen

Mikey Walsh: Gypsy Boy

Mikey Walsh: Gypsy Boy

UK 2010, 292 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Hodder and Stoughton
Mikey Walsh was born into a Romany Gypsy family, and this is his memoir of growing up gypsy and gay. Gypsies live in secluded communities and little is known about their way of life. After centuries of persecution, Gypsies are wary of outsiders, and if you choose to leave you can never come back. This is something Mikey knows too ... Weiterlesen

George Seaton: Big Diehl - The Road Home

George Seaton: Big Diehl - The Road Home

USA 2010, 409 pp., brochure, € 13.29
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Diehl's return to Wyoming from six years of service to his country - including combat in Iraq - is colored with a dark intent to even the score with his father, who stole Diehl's innocence when he was twelve. Wyoming also embraces Diehl's »adopted« family on a ranch in Casper. But before he can get rid of the heavy burden ... Weiterlesen

Seiten zu diesem Thema: < zurück  1 2 3 weiter >
Warenkorb   |   Mein Konto  |   Derzeit nicht angemeldet
Zum Seitenanfang