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Sebastian Barry: Days Without End

Sebastian Barry: Days Without End

USA 2016, 259 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Faber and Faber
Having signed up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, go on to fight in the Indian wars and, ultimately, the Civil War. Discovering the love they share for each other they start a life together. Orphans of terrible hardships themselves, they find these days of war to be vivid ... Weiterlesen

David Treuer: Prudence

David Treuer: Prudence

USA 2016, 253 pp., brochure, € 16.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin USA
In August 1942, Frankie Washburn returns to his family's rustic Minnesota resort for one last visit before he joins the war as a bombardier, heading for Europe. Awaiting him are his hovering mother, his distant father, the Indian caretaker who's been more of a father to him than his own, and Billy, the childhood friend who over the years has ... Weiterlesen

Adrian Brooks: The Right Side of History

Adrian Brooks: The Right Side of History

100 Years of LGBTQI Activism. USA 2015, 242 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Cleis
How queer activists changed the United States of America, before, during and after Stonewall. Described by gay scholar Jonathan Katz as »willfully cacophonous, a chorus of voices untamed«, »On The Right Side of History« sets itself apart from oral histories by pinpointing how LGBTQ folk have been in the forefront of progressive social evolution in the United States, bringing attention ... Weiterlesen

Elliot Tiber: After Woodstock

Elliot Tiber: After Woodstock

The True Story of a Belgian Movie, an Israeli Wedding, and a Manhattan Breakdown. USA 2015, 462 pp., hardbound, € 27.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Square One
During the summer of 1969, Elliot Tiber helped start the gay liberation movement and saved the Woodstock Festival from cancellation. In this third volume of his memoirs, Tiber chronicles his adventures in the entertainment industry. Guided as much by chutzpah as by his creative drive, Tiber travels around the world. Along the way, Tiber meets the celebrated Belgian playwright and ... Weiterlesen

Kerry Eleveld: Don't Tell Me to Wait

Kerry Eleveld: Don't Tell Me to Wait

How the Fight for Gay Rights Changed America and Transformed Obama's Presidency. USA 2015, 368 pp., hardbound, € 27.99
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Perseus Group
Gay rights has been a defining progressive issue of Barack Obama's presidency: Congress repealed »Don't Ask, Don't Tell« in 2010 with his strong support, and in 2011, he instructed his Justice Department to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act, helping to pave the way for a series of Supreme Court decisions that ultimately legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. This succession ... Weiterlesen

Jonathan Lethem: Der Garten der Dissidenten

Jonathan Lethem: Der Garten der Dissidenten

Dt. v. Ulrich Blumenbach. D 2015, 470 S., Pb, € 12.33
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Fischer
Wegen der Affäre mit dem schwarzen Polizisten Douglas wird Rose Zimmer aus der kommunistischen Partei der USA ausgeschlossen. Zuvor war bereits ihr deutsch-jüdischer Ehemann Albert als Spion in die DDR ausgewiesen worden. Dennoch hält die »Rote Königin« von Queens stur und tyrannisch an ihren politischen Überzeugungen fest. Ihre Tochter Miriam kann vor Roses erdrückendem Einfluss nur in die aufkommende New-Age-Bewegung ... Weiterlesen

Langdon Hammer: James Merrill

Langdon Hammer: James Merrill

Life and Art. USA 2015, 944 pp., hardback, € 39.99
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Knopf
American poet James Merrill was born to high privilege and high expectations. Wounded by his parents' bitter divorce, he was the child of a broken home, looking for repair in poetry and love. He was a gay man inventing his identity against the grain of American society during the eras of the closet, gay liberation, and AIDS. Above all, he ... Weiterlesen

Larry Kramer: Search for My Heart, No.1

Larry Kramer: Search for My Heart, No.1

USA 2015, 800 pp., hardback, € 39.99
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Forty years in the making, »The American People« embodies Larry Kramer's vision of his beloved and accursed homeland. As the founder of ACT UP and the author of »Faggots« and »The Normal Heart«, Kramer has affected American lives and letters. Here he tells the heroic story of one nation under a plague, contaminated by greed, hate, and disease yet host ... Weiterlesen

Armistead Maupin: The Days of Anna Madrigal

Armistead Maupin: The Days of Anna Madrigal

USA 2015, 270 pp., pb., € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Black Swan
Anna Madrigal, the transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane, is one of modern literature's most unforgettable and enduring characters. Now a fragile ninety-two and committed to the notion of »leaving like a lady«, Anna has seemingly found peace in the bosom of her logical family in San Francisco. Some members of Anna's family are bound for the other-worldly landscape of ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: States of Desire Revisited

Edmund White: States of Desire Revisited

Travels in Gay America. USA 2014, 348 pp., brochure, € 27.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
University of Wisconsin Press
»States of Desire Revisited« looks back from the 21st century at a pivotal moment in the late 1970s: Gay Liberation was a new and flourishing movement of creative culture, political activism, and sexual freedom, just before the 1980s devastation of AIDS. Edmund White traveled America, recording impressions of gay individuals and communities that remain perceptive and captivating today. He noted ... Weiterlesen

Joseph P. Lash: Eleanor: The Years Alone

Joseph P. Lash: Eleanor: The Years Alone

USA 2014, 352 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
W. W. Norton
Joseph P. Lash picks up where »Eleanor and Franklin« ended, tracing Mrs. Roosevelt's 17 years of life after FDR's death in 1945. Combining meticulous research with riveting anecdote, he examines the humanitarian work that earned Eleanor the title of »First Lady of the World«. Compared to »Eleanor & Franklin«, »Eleanor: The Years Alone« is tedious with a lot of minutae ... Weiterlesen

Sean Straub: Body Counts

Sean Straub: Body Counts

A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival. USA 2014, 420 pp. with b/w photographs, hardbound, € 28.99
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Scribner
As a politics-obsessed Georgetown freshman, Sean Strub arrived in Washington, D.C., from Iowa in 1976, with a plum part-time job running a Senate elevator in the U.S. Capitol. He also harbored a terrifying secret: his attraction to men. As Strub explored the capital's political and social circles, he discovered a parallel world where powerful men lived double lives shrouded in ... Weiterlesen

Paul Auster: Sunset Park

Paul Auster: Sunset Park

Dt. v. Werner Schmitz. D 2014, 315 S., Pb, € 10.27
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Rowohlt
Die neue Wirtschaftskrise bereitet einer ganzen Schar von Menschen neue Sorgen. Und doch - so räsoniert Auster in seinem »Sunset Park« - bleiben die Hoffnungen nicht auf der Strecke. In diesem Panoptikum gibt es einen jungen Mann, der wie ein Besessener Fotos von Trümmern macht. Eine etwas unterkühlte Filmliebhaberin entwickelt eine Vorliebe fürs Androgyne. Die beiden treffen im Brooklyner Stadtteil ... Weiterlesen

Yen Tan (R): Pit Stop

Yen Tan (R): Pit Stop

USA 2013, OF, dt. UT, 80 Min., € 18.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Pro-fun
Schwule Lebenswirklichkeit im rauen Texas: Der offen schwule Gabelstaplerfahrer Ernesto und der ziemlich erfolgreiche Bauunternehmer Gabe versuchen, in der Heimat ihrer kleinen texanischen Arbeiterstadt als Schwule, sowohl sexuell als auch beziehungsmäßig ein passables Leben zu führen. Doch Gabe trauert noch über das Ende seiner Affäre mit einem verheirateten Mann, und Ernesto will mehr als nur Sex, er sehnt sich nach ... Weiterlesen


Mad Men: Season 6

Mad Men: Season 6

USA 2013, OF, dt. SF, dt., engl. UT, 611 Min., € 29.99
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Universal - Mad Men 6
Ehebruch, Scheidung, Unternehmensfusionen und eine Gesellschaft im radikalen Umbruch: Auch in der sechsten Staffel nehmen uns die Männer von der Madison Avenue - viermaliger Gewinner des Primetime Emmy als beste Dramaserie und dreimal in Folge Gewinner des Golden Globe, angeführt von Don Draper (Golden Globe-Gewinner Jon Hamm) - in gewohnt furioser Manier mit in das glamouröse und egozentrische »goldene Zeitalter« ... Weiterlesen

Paulette Callen: Charity

Paulette Callen: Charity

D 2013, 337 pp, brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Ylva Verlag - The Charity Series 1
The friendship between Lena Kaiser, a sodbuster's daughter, and Gustie Roemer, an educated Easterner, is unlikely in any other circumstance but post-frontier Charity, South Dakota. Gustie is considered an outsider, and Lena is too proud to share her problems with anyone else. On the nearby Sioux reservation, Gustie also finds love and family with two Dakotah women: Dorcas Many Roads, ... Weiterlesen

Jae: Backwards to Oregon

Jae: Backwards to Oregon

D 2013, 521 pp, brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Ylva Verlag - The Oregon Series 1
»Luke« Hamilton has always been sure that she'd never marry. She accepted that she would spend her life alone when she chose to live her life disguised as a man. After working in a brothel for three years, Nora Macauley has lost all illusions about love. She no longer hopes for a man who will sweep her off her feet ... Weiterlesen

Sarah Dreher: Stoner McTavish

Sarah Dreher: Stoner McTavish

Dt. v. E. Laudan u. M. Grundmann. D 2013 (Neuaufl.), 357 S., Pb, € 13.36
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Argument Verlag - Ariadne Krimi
Anstrengend und öde - mehr kann Stoner McTavish ihren Leben nicht abgewinnen. Das heimatliche Boston leidet unter einer Hitzewelle. In der ganzen Stadt herrscht tote Hose. Auf Stoners Schreibtisch türmt sich unerledigte Arbeit. Und ihre Geschäftspartnerin quillt förmlich über vor lauter schrägen Einfällen. Da kommt der neue Auftrag gerade recht: die junge, hübsche Gwen befürchtet, dass ihr Mann sie auf ... Weiterlesen

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