André Aciman: Enigma Variations

USA 2019, 226 pp., pb., € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
From a youthful infatuation with a cabinet maker in a small Italian fishing village, to a passionate yet sporadic affair with a woman in New York, to an obsession with a man he meets at a tennis court, »Enigma Variations« charts one man's path through the great loves of his life. Paul's intense desires, losses and longings draw him closer, ... Weiterlesen

John Boyne: The Heart's Invisible Furies

UK 2017, 720 pp., brochure, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin UK
A gay man is finding his way in post-war Ireland. The story begins in 1945 when a baby is born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural community. The baby is adopted as Cyril Avery by a middle-class Dublin couple and befriends a more confident, glamorous boy, Julian Woodbead, who provides a dubious anchor through ... Weiterlesen

Trebor Healey: Faun

USA 2012, 270 pp., brochure, € 21.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Lethe
One morning Gilberto Rubio wakes up with a five o'clock shadow. Puberty. But why are his legs getting so furry? And what are these little horn nubs pushing out of his scalp? What's that nub of a tail that's making it so hard to sit on anything but couches? His peers begin to treat him like a freak, while his ... Weiterlesen

John Rechy: The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens

USA 2004, 324 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Publishers Group West
Modeled on the classic 18th-century picaresques like Fielding's »The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling« and Defoe's »Moll Flanders«, »The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens« is the modern-day bildungsroman of a prodigiously attractive young Texan named Lyle Clemens. Lyle is kind of a holy fool who, like Chance in »Being There«, illuminates the actions, motivations, and prejudices of others ... Weiterlesen