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

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

Edmund White: Jack Holmes and His Friend

UK 2012, 392 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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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

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

Edmund White: Jack Holmes and His Friend

UK 2012, 393 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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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

Jeremy Reed: Here Comes the Nice

UK 2011, 279 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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�Here Comes the Nice� is novel as time-machine, taking the reader back to the raw early gigs of the Rolling Stones, the Who, the Small Faces, and behind the scenes to a secret that will make the sixties of the first-wave Mods live forever - somewhere. Elegiac and thrilling, �Here Comes the Nice� is a paean to the power of ... Weiterlesen

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
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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

Alan Hollinghurst: The Stranger's Child

UK 2011, 564 pp., brochure, € 14.60
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

In the 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 ... Weiterlesen

Jeremy Reed: The King of Carnaby Street: A Life of John Stephen

USA 2010, 264 pp., hardbound, € 27.95
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In 1956 John Stephen took a lease on the newly available 5 Carnaby Street - he was to remark later, �If I hadn't had a very understanding landlord, that would have been the end of me. But he led me around the corner to Carnaby Street, showed me a shop and suggested I got to work right away.� Before long ... Weiterlesen

Andrea Busfield: Aphrodite's War

UK 2010, 510 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Cyprus, 1955 - a guerrilla war is raging and four Greek brothers are growing up to the familiar sounds of exploding bombs and sniper fire. Determined to avenge the death of his elder brother and to win the heart of his beloved Praxi, young Loukis joins a cell of schoolboy terrorists operating in the mountains. But when his cohorts blow ... Weiterlesen

Alain Claude Sulzer: A Perfect Waiter

Transl. by John Brownjohn. UK 2009, 215 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Bloomsbury

This gay classic of the new century is now available in an English edition for the first time: Erneste is the perfect waiter, and his private life seems to embody the qualities he brings to his profession. But inwardly this polite and dignified man is in the grip of a violent passion: he yearns for a young waiter-in-training, Jakob, who ... Weiterlesen

Elliot Tiber, Tom Monte: Taking Woodstock

A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life. USA 2009, 215 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Before there ws a Woodstock Concert, there was Elliot Tiber working to make a go of his parents' upstate New York motel. The Jewish clientele who had frequented the Catskills had discovered Florida, and the upstate tourist business was dying. To save his family's livelihood, Elliot put on plays and local festivals. In the process, he became the area's issuer ... Weiterlesen

Donald Windham: Two People

USA 2008, 181 pp., brochure, € 28.99
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Mondial

Neglected for over forty years, this gay novel has been republished in a more tolerant climate. �Two People� is about a love affair in Rome between a middle-aged American and a much younger Italian, but the word �people� in the title is both singular and plural, dealing with two cultures as well as with two individuals. First published in 1965, ... Weiterlesen
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Donna Milner: After River

USA 2008, 343 pp., hardback, € 19.89
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At 15, Natalie Ward believes her life is perfect. Growing up on a dairy farm in the mountains of British Columbia, she knows little of the outside world. But she knows her family. Friends and neighbors, young and old alike, show up regularly on their farmhouse porch. Natalie cherishes her position as the only daughter of the beautiful Nettie Ward, ... Weiterlesen

Jonathan Coe: The Rain Before It Falls

UK 2007, 278 pp., brochure, € 18.79
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As 73-year-old Rosamond sits alone in her remote Shropshire house, her dying thoughts turn to her cousin's granddaughter, Imogen, who has been blind from an early age. Rosamond realizes that she has one last duty to perform: to describe on tape, for Imogen's benefit, a series of 20 photographs which between them tell a tragic family history. At the centre ... Weiterlesen

Neil Bartlett: Skin Lane

UK 2007, 344 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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At 47, Mr F's working life on London's Skin Lane is one governed by calm, precision and routine. So when he starts to have frightening, recurring nightmares, he does his best to ignore them. The images that appear in his dreams are disturbing - Mr F can't for the life of him think where they have come from. After all, ... Weiterlesen

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