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Thema: Coming-of-age



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André Aciman: Call Me by Your Name

André Aciman: Call Me by Your Name

USA 2007, 248 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
The author poignantly probes a boy's erotic coming-of-age at his family's Italian Mediterranean home. Elio -17-year-old, extremely well-read, sensitive and the son of a prominent expatriate professor - finds himself troublingly attracted to this year's visiting resident scholar, recruited by his father from an American university. Oliver is 24, breezy and spontaneous, and working on a book about a Greek ... Weiterlesen

Patrick Ryan: Send Me

Patrick Ryan: Send Me

USA 2007, 312 pp., brochure, € 12.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Teresa Kerrigan, ungrounded by two divorces, tries to keep herself together. But her ex-husbands linger in the background while her four children spin away to their own separate futures, each carrying the baggage of a complex family history. Matt serves as caretaker to the ailing father who abandoned him as a child, while his wild teenage sister, Karen, hides herself ... Weiterlesen

Dennis Cooper: Frisk

Dennis Cooper: Frisk

USA 1991, 128 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
When Dennis is 13, he sees a series of photographs of a boy apparently unimaginably mutilated. Dennis is not shocked, but stunned by their mystery and their power, their glimpse at the reality of death. Some years later, Dennis meets the boy who posed for the photographs. He did it for love. Surrounded by images of violence, the celebrity of ... Weiterlesen

Larry Duplechan: Blackbird

Larry Duplechan: Blackbird

USA 2006, 252 pp., brochure, € 15.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
First published by St. Martin's in 1986, »Blackbird« is a funny, moving, gay coming-of-age novel about growing up black and gay in Southern California. The lead character, Johnnie Ray Rousseau, is a high school student upset at losing the lead role in the school staging of »Romeo and Juliet«. If that weren't enough, his best friend has been beaten badly ... Weiterlesen

T. J. Parsell: Fish. A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison

T. J. Parsell: Fish. A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison

USA 2006, 324 pp, pb, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
When seventeen-year-old T.J. Parsell held up the local Photo Mat with a toy gun, he was sentenced to four and a half to fifteen years in prison. The first night of his term, four older inmates drugged Parsell and took turns raping him. When they were through, they flipped a coin to decide who would »own« him. Forced to remain ... Weiterlesen

Rigoberto González: Butterfly Boy

Rigoberto González: Butterfly Boy

USA 2006, 207 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
University of Wisconsin Press
Growing up among poor migrant Mexican farmworkers, Rigoberto González faces the pressure of coming-of-age as a gay man in a culture that prizes machismo. Losing his mother when he is twelve, González must then confront his father's abandonment and an abiding sense of cultural estrangement, both from his adopted home in the United States and from a Mexican birthright. His ... Weiterlesen

Dale Peck: Martin and John

Dale Peck: Martin and John

USA 2006, 228 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Reprint of a classic coming-of-age tale that is also a haunting love story set in the very near past. New York, 1982: John is a hustler and falls in love with Martin, who becomes ill with AIDS. Martin dies two years later. To order his new existence without Martin, John starts to keep a journal and then to write stories. ... Weiterlesen

Graeme Aitken: 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous

Graeme Aitken: 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous

AUS 2006, 241 pp., brochure, € 14.79
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Sweet, fat, theatrical Billy-Boy was never cut out to be a farmer, but as his father's only son he's obliged to try. The cows are wayward and the chores are gruelling. But Billy finds escape in a fantasy world where the turnip paddock becomes a lunar landscape, a lavender bed jacket a slinky space suit, a cow's tail a head ... Weiterlesen

Kate Bornstein: Hello Cruel World

Kate Bornstein: Hello Cruel World

USA 2006, 233 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Transgender trailblazer Kate Bornstein has ushered us into a world of limitless possibility through a daring re-envisionment of the gender system as we know it. Here, Kate shares personal and unorthodox methods of survival for navigating in an often cruel world. A one-of-a-kind guide to staying alive outside the box, this book offers 101 alternatives to suicide for teens, freaks ... Weiterlesen

Brian Sloan: Tale of Two Summers

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

David Levithan, Billy Merrell (eds.): The Full Spectrum

David Levithan, Billy Merrell (eds.): The Full Spectrum

USA 2006, 277 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Using works submitted anonymously through the Web site the authors created in conjunction with the »Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network« (GLSEN), the editors have selected 40 essays, mini-autobiographies, poems, and photographs that chronicle the lives of 21st-century young people, ages 13 to 23. The handsomely dense package includes real-life stories about coming out, falling in and out of love, ... Weiterlesen

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

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

Martin Moran: The Tricky Part

Martin Moran: The Tricky Part

USA 2006, 285 pp., brochure, € 13.89
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Raised in a loving Catholic family in Denver, Martin Moran was a star student who imagined that he would one day become a U.S. senator. When he was 12 years old, a camp counselor seduced him, initiating a sexual relationship that would last years and haunt Moran's life for decades. He discovered a passion for acting and built a career ... Weiterlesen

Alex Sanchez: Rainbow High

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

Alasdair Duncan: Dance, Recover, Repeat

Alasdair Duncan: Dance, Recover, Repeat

Go out, Get Wasted, Meet a Boy. USA 2005, 373 pp., brochure, € 12.45
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Calvin is 16 and bored with suburban life. But in the city, things are altogether much more exciting. Calvin meets Anthony - and the boys quickly become obsessed with each other. Then Calvin discovers pictures of Anthony on a pornographic website and is drawn into his new friend's seedy underworld. Just as he's discovering what it's like when first love ... Weiterlesen

Andrew Holleran,  Donald Weise: Fresh Men 2

Andrew Holleran, Donald Weise: Fresh Men 2

USA 2005, 358 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
The new book in the LAMBDA Award-winning series »Fresh Men 2 - New Voices in Gay Fiction«, brings together the very best stories of emerging gay authors. With equal parts sensitivity and irreverence, this collection of homosexual stories speaks to a broad range of gay experiences. From coming-out to coming-of-age, from finding love to living in a post-gay world - ... Weiterlesen

Michael Chabon: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Michael Chabon: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

USA 2005, 297 pp. + 15 P.S. on Author & Book, brochure, € 12.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Art Bechstein, a young college student who has a gangster father, romantic problems, and a growing collection of bizarre friends, meets Arthur Lecomte, a handsome young homosexual who proceeds to initiate Art into his own world for reasons that are his own. Through Arthur, Art meets Cleveland, a motorcycle-driving hellion with an untold intelligence, and Phlox, a young woman with ... Weiterlesen

Scott Heim: Mysterious Skin

Scott Heim: Mysterious Skin

USA 2005, 292 S., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
HarperPerennial
At the age of 8 Brian Lackey is found bleeding under the crawl space of his house, having endured something so traumatic that he cannot remember it for long. During the following years he slowly recalls details from that night, but these fragments are not enough to explain what happened to him, and he begins to believe that he may ... Weiterlesen

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