Brian Sloan: Tale of Two Summers

USA/UK/CAN/AUS 2006, 245 pp., hardbound, € 15.69
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
A 10-year best friendship is put to the test when Chuck and Hal spend their first summer apart falling for two questionable mates: Chuck, a 15-year-old supremely comfortable in his hetero (though adolescently horny) skin, is a major fan of Broadway musicals who is rooming at summer theater school, with admirable tolerance, with a campy queer boy. His best friend ... Weiterlesen

John Hall: Is He - or Isn't He?

USA 2006, 298 pp., brochure, € 9.20
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
The best friends Paige and Anthony have vowed to both snag boyfriends before the Senior Prom. In the glamourous glittering world of one of New York City's best, richest and most famous private schools, the two friends become equally entranced by the enigmatic, breathtaking, extremely good-looking, ever-so-cute new guy Max. Whether luring him into a hot tub, casting him as ... Weiterlesen

Sarah Waters: The Night Watch

USA 2006, 473 pp., Pb, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
This is the story of four Londoners - three women and a young man with a past - drawn with the absolute truth and intimacy. Kay, who drove an ambulance during the war and lived life at full throttle, now dresses in mannish clothes and wanders the streets with a restless hunger, searching... Helen - clever, sweet, a much loved, ... Weiterlesen

Alex Sanchez: Rainbow High

USA 2005, 247 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Jason Carrillo, the best-looking athlete in school, has his eyes on the prize from day 1: a scholarship for college. But then his eyes turn to love - and Kyle. Kyle Meeks is the star of the swim-team and all-around good guy, and he is finally in the relationship he's wanted. Being in love feels so good, in fact, that ... Weiterlesen

James Purdy: Narrow Rooms

USA 2005, 191 pp., brochure, € 14.49
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Purdy's exquisitely surreal fiction has been populated for more than 40 years by social outcasts living in crisis and longing for love. However, Purdy was also among the first novelists to incorporate transgressive renderings of gay life into his work, including unapologetic, sexually explicit material. »Narrow Rooms« is a powerful story of love turned around, of passion and fierce discovery, ... Weiterlesen

Monique Truong: The Book of Salt

USA 2003, 262 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Binh, a young gay Vietnamese cook, flees Saigon in 1929, disgracing his family to serve as galley hand at sea. The taunts of his now-deceased father ringing in his ears, Binh answers an ad for a live-in cook at a Parisian household, and soon finds himself employed by lesbian couple Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Toklas and Stein hold ... Weiterlesen

Alex Sanchez: Rainbow Boys

USA 2003, 233 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Three teenage boys, coming of age and out of the closet. In a revealing debut novel that percolates with passion and wit, Alex Sanchez follows these very different high-school seniors as their struggles with sexuality and intolerance draw them into a triangle of love, betrayal, and, ultimately, friendship. Jason Carrillo: Jock. Good looks. Beautiful girlfriend. Popular. Unsatisfied. Kyle Meeks: Swim ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Bram: The Notorious Dr. August

USA 2001, 498 pp., brochure, € 27.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Spanning more than sixty years from the Civil War to the early 1920s, and moving from the battlefields of the South to New York City, through Paris, London, Constantinople, and Coney Island, »The Notorious Dr. August« features Augustus Fitzwilliam Boyd, alias Dr. August, an improvisational pianist who believes his music is sometimes inspired by the spirit world. He is in ... Weiterlesen
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Truman Capote: Breakfast at Tiffany's

UK 2000 (Reprint), 157 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin UK
It's New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffany's. And nice girls don't, except, of course, Holly Golightly. Pursued by Mafia gangsters and playboy millionaires, Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair and turned-up nose, a heart-breaker, a perplexer, a traveller, a tease. She is irrepressibly »top banana in the shock ... Weiterlesen

William J. Mann: The Men from the Boys

USA 1998, 342 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Plume
This is William J. Mann's first novel about gay life in the 1990s. It's also a story about sex - safe sex, casual sex, real sex - and love - young lovers, old lovers, ex-lovers, falling in love, and staying in love. Thirty-plus freelance writer Jeff O'Brien panics when Lloyd, his partner of seven years, announces that there's no passion ... Weiterlesen