Kevin Sessums: Mississippi Sissy

USA 2008, 305 pp., brochure, € 11.59
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Sessums, a journalist who specializes in celebrity interviews, describes and analyzes his own childhood and youth, writing of both sexual orientation and race relations in the '60s and early '70s. As a toddler, he swished and posed instead of responding to his basketball coach father's expectation of masculinity. However, both parents were dead by the time he was 9, and ... Weiterlesen

Sándor Márai: The Rebels

USA 2008, 278 pp., brochure, € 11.59
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
This early novel from the rediscovered Hungarian writer Sándor Márai is a haunting story of a group of alienated boys on the cusp of adult life - and possibly death - during World War I. Summer 1918: four boys approaching graduation are living in a ghost town bereft of fathers, uncles, and older brothers, all of whom are off fighting ... Weiterlesen

Will Davis: My Side of the Story

UK 2008, 256 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
So what if your parents hate each other and want you to have therapy? So what if your holier-than-thou sister (also known as »The Nun«) and her posse have decided you're going to hell? So what if the school tyrant and his goons are hunting you down, or if your best friend has just outed you to a neo-Nazi? 16-year-old ... Weiterlesen

John Cornwell: Seminary Boy

USA 2008, 321 pp., brochure, € 12.39
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The author's memoir of an adolescence spent in the isolated all-male world of a seminary. Born into a destitute family with a dominating Irish-Catholic mother and an absconding father during WW II in London, John Cornwell experienced a deeply dysfunctional childhood. When he was sent to a remote seminary for boys in the countryside at 13. While he lived under ... Weiterlesen

Shyam Selvadurai: Swimming in the Monsoon Sea

CAN 2007, 274 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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The setting is Sri Lanka, 1980, and it is the season of monsoons. Fourteen-year-old Amrith is caught up in the life of the cheerful, well-to-do household in which he is being raised by his vibrant Auntie Bundle and kindly Uncle Lucky. He tries not to think of his life »before« when his doting mother was still alive. Amrith's holiday plans ... Weiterlesen
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Christopher Barzak: One for Sorrow

USA 2007, 309 pp., brochure, € 10.79
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Adam McCormick had just turned 15 when the body was found in the woods. It is the beginning of an autumn that will change his life forever. Jamie Marks was a boy a lot like Adam, a boy no one paid much attention to - a boy almost no one would truly miss. And for the first time, Adam feels ... Weiterlesen

Sarah Schulman: The Child

USA 2007, 282 pp., hardbound, € 22.59
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Structured like a classic novel of legal suspense, »The Child« explores what happens when Stew, a lonely 15-year-old boy, looks for and finds an adult boyfriend online. In short order his lover is arrested in an Internet pedophilia sting and Stew's world is turned upside down. He's exposed to his family and community, leaving the young outcast to fend for ... Weiterlesen

Alex Sanchez: Rainbow Road

USA 2007, 250 pp., brochure, € 9.20
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It's the end of the road. Jason Carrillo came out to his basketball team and lost his university scholarship. Now that he's graduated, he's been asked to speak at the opening of a gay and lesbian high school across the country - but what is he going to say? Kyle Meeks is getting ready to go to Princeton in the ... Weiterlesen

André Aciman: Call Me by Your Name

USA 2007, 248 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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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

USA 2007, 312 pp., brochure, € 12.99
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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

USA 1991, 128 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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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

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

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

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

USA 2006, 228 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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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

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

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

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