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Paul Bailey: The Prince's Boy

Paul Bailey: The Prince's Boy

UK 2015, 152 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Bloomsbury
In May 1927, 19-year-old Dinu Grigorescu, a skinny boy with literary ambitions, has just arrived in Paris. He has been sent from Bucharest, the city of his childhood, by his wealthy father to embark upon a bohemian adventure and relish the unique pleasures of Parisian life. An innocent in a new city, Dinu is secretly drawn to the Bains du ... Weiterlesen

Sarah Waters: The Paying Guests

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

Glenway Wescott: A Visit to Priapus and Other Stories

Glenway Wescott: A Visit to Priapus and Other Stories

USA 2013, 200 pp., hardback, € 26.95
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University of Wisconsin Press
Just as E. M. Forster's novel of gay love, »Maurice«, remained unpublished throughout his lifetime, Glenway Wescott's long story »A Visit to Priapus« was also destined to be a posthumous work, buried in Wescott's massive archive of manuscripts, journals, notebooks, and letters. The autobiographical story is about a literary man, frustrated in love, who puts aside his pride and makes ... Weiterlesen

Andrea Weiss: Paris Was a Woman

Andrea Weiss: Paris Was a Woman

Portraits from the Left Bank. USA 2013, 256 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 24.95
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Publishers Group West
Originally published more than twenty years ago and winner of a Lambda Literary Award, »Paris Was a Woman« is a rare profile of the female literati in Paris at the turn of the last century. Now with a new preface and illustrations, this »scrapbook« of their work - along with Andrea Weiss' lively commentary - highlights the political, social, and ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Isherwood: Mr Norris Changes Trains

Christopher Isherwood: Mr Norris Changes Trains

UK 2013, 200 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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On a train to Berlin in late 1930, William Bradshaw locks eyes with Arthur Norris, an irresistibly comical fellow Englishman wearing a rather obvious wig and nervous about producing his passport at the frontier. So begins a friendship conducted in the seedier quarters of the city, where Norris runs a dubious import-export business and lives in excited fear of his ... Weiterlesen

Andrew Sean Greer: The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells

Andrew Sean Greer: The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells

UK 2013, 289 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Faber and Faber
It's 1985, and Greta Wells wishes she lived in any other time but this one: she has lost her beloved gay twin brother, Felix, to AIDS, her lover Nathan to another woman, and cannot seem to go on alone. To ease her sadness, her doctor suggests an unusual procedure, one that opens doors of insight into her relationship, her conflicting ... Weiterlesen

Glenway Wescott: A Heaven of Words

Glenway Wescott: A Heaven of Words

Last Journals, 1956-1984. USA 2013, 306 pp, brochure, € 24.95
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University of Wisconsin Press
From humble beginnings on a poor Wisconsin farm, Wescott eventually emerged as an influential poet and novelist. A major figure in the American literary expatriate community in Paris during the 1920s and a prominent American novelist in the years leading up to World War II, he spent a decade living abroad before relocating permanently to New York and New Jersey ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Isherwood: The Memorial

Christopher Isherwood: The Memorial

UK 2012, 272 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Vintage
With »The Memorial«, Christopher Isherwood began his lifelong work of rewriting his own experiences into witty yet almost forensic portraits of modern society. Set in the aftermath of World War I, »The Memorial« portrays the dissolution of a tradition-bound English family. Cambridge student Eric Vernon finds himself torn between his desire to emulate his heroic father, who led a life ... Weiterlesen

Giorgio Bassani: The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles

Giorgio Bassani: The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles

Engl. by Jamie McKendrick. UK 2012, 136 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Penguin UK
Into the insular town of 1930s Ferrara, a new doctor arrives. Fadigati is hopeful and modern, and more than anything wants to fit into his new home. But his fresh, appealing appearance soon crumbles when the young man he pays to be his lover reveals the doctor's homosexuality in a public humiliation that leads into his destruction. As anti-Semitism spreads ... Weiterlesen

Alan Hollinghurst: The Stranger's Child

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

Mark Cornwall: The Devil's Wall

Mark Cornwall: The Devil's Wall

The Nationalist Youth Mission of Heinz Rutha. USA/UK 2012, 352 pp., hardbound, € 59.95
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Harvard University Press
In interwar Czechoslovakia, Sudeten German nationalists conceived a radical mission to try to restore German influence across the region. Heinz Rutha - earnest, seductive, and deeply conflicted by his homosexual longings - was the pioneer of a youth movement that emphasized male bonding in its quest to reassert German dominance over Czech space. Czechoslovak authorities misinterpreted Rutha's mission as a ... Weiterlesen

Edmund de Waal: The Hare With Amber Eyes

Edmund de Waal: The Hare With Amber Eyes

USA 2011, 354 pp, pb, € 15.95
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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

Paul Russell: The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov

Paul Russell: The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov

USA 2011, 383 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Cleis
Russell's protagonist is an outsider because of his sexuality. He is the eyewitness to world-changing events and manages to find a place for himself at the heart of the creative life of his times. Russell gives us incisive portraits of Cocteau, Diaghilev, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas and their Charmed Circle, and Vladimir and Véra Nabokov, and glimpses into ... Weiterlesen

Annemarie Schwarzenbach: All the Roads Are Open

Annemarie Schwarzenbach: All the Roads Are Open

USA 2011, 140 pp., hardbound, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
In June 1939 Annemarie Schwarzenbach and fellow writer Ella Maillart set out from Geneva in a Ford, heading for Afghanistan. The first women to travel Afghanistan's Northern Road, they fled the storm brewing in Europe to seek a place untouched by what they considered to be Western neuroses. The Afghan journey documented in »All the Roads Are Open« is one ... Weiterlesen

Alan Hollinghurst: The Stranger's Child

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

Nigel Barley: Island of Demons

Nigel Barley: Island of Demons

Singapore 2010, 388 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Monsoon
In the 1920s and 30s, Walter Spies - gay German ethnographer, choreographer, film maker, natural historian and painter - transformed the perception of Bali from that of a remote island to become the site for Western fantasies about Paradise as it underwent an influx of foreign visitors. The rich and famous flocked to Spies' house in Ubud and his life ... Weiterlesen

Harry Oosterhuis/ Hubert Kennedy (eds.): Homosexuality and Male Bonding in Pre-Nazi Germany

Harry Oosterhuis/ Hubert Kennedy (eds.): Homosexuality and Male Bonding in Pre-Nazi Germany

The Youth Movement, the Gay Movement and Male Bonding Before Hitler's Rise. USA 2010 (Reprint), 271 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Routledge
This is a landmark publication featuring English translations of selections from the early gay German journal, »Der Eigene«. This collection, previously scattered and difficult to read in the original German, allows readers direct access to primary source material on the early gay movement. Neglected for years, these articles provide insight into the early gay movement, particularly in its relation to ... Weiterlesen

Geoffrey Sax (R): Christopher and His Kind

Geoffrey Sax (R): Christopher and His Kind

UK 2010, OF, 90 min., € 24.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Based on Christopher Isherwood's memoir »Christopher and His Kind«, this landmark BBC adaption gives a glimpse into the decadent and politically unstable world of 1930s Berlin with Nazism rapidly rising. A young wide-eyed Christopher is keen to escape repressive English society when his friend W.H. Auden invites him to come to Berlin where gay sex seems so easy to find ... Weiterlesen

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