Joseph Allen Boone: Furnace Creek

USA 2023; 374 pp.; broschur, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Black Spring Press Group
Taking its inspiration from ?Great Expectations?, this novel teases us with the question of what Pip might have been like had he grown up in the American South of the 1960s and 1970s and faced the explosive social issues, racial injustice, a war abroad, women?s and gay rights, class struggle, that galvanized the world in those decades.
A guilty encounter with ... Weiterlesen

Stephen Fry: Troy

UK 2021, 432 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin UK
The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against that great city, to which they will lay siege for ten whole and very bloody years. Zeus, the king of the gods, triggers war when he asks the Trojan prince Paris to ... Weiterlesen

Pat Barker: The Silence of the Girls

UK 2018, 325 pp., pb., € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin UK
Queen Briseis has been stolen from her conquered homeland and given as a concubine to a foreign warrior. The warrior is Achilles: famed hero, loathed enemy, ruthless butcher, darkly troubled spirit. Briseis's fate is now indivisibly entwined with his. No one knows it yet, but there are just ten weeks to go until the Fall of Troy, the end of ... Weiterlesen

Colm Tóibín: House of Names

UK 2017, 224 pp., brochure, € 18.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin UK
On the day of his daughter's wedding, Agamemnon orders her sacrifice. His daughter is led to her death, and Agamemnon leads his army into victorious battle. Years later, he returns home and his murderous action has set the entire family - mother, brother, sister - on a path of intimate violence, as they enter a world of hushed commands and ... Weiterlesen

Sarah Schulman: The Cosmopolitans

USA 2016, 296 pp., hardbound, € 18.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Feminist Press
A modern retelling of Balzac's classic »Cousin Bette« by one of America's most prolific lesbian writers. Earl, a black, gay actor working in a meatpacking plant, and Bette, a white secretary, have lived next door to each other in the same Greenwich Village apartment building for thirty years. Shamed and disowned by their families, both found refuge in New York ... Weiterlesen

Ali Smith: Girl Meets Boy

UK 2015, 164 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Ligdus and Telethusa are having a child, but they cannot afford to have a girl. Ligdus informs Telethusa that she had better hope for a boy. While this decision makes them both sad, Telethusa »must obey«. She prays to Isis, but births a girl and names her Iphis, a name that »suited male or female - a neutral name«. She ... Weiterlesen

Patrick E. Horrigan: Portraits of an Exhibition

USA 2015, 232 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Lethe
The hero of this novel is a 21st-century Dorian Gray, an alienated young man searching for his life's purpose through a gallery of portraits at an exhibition. Afraid he may have contracted HIV the night before during a risky sexual gay encounter and only beginning to fathom the possible consequences, Robin threads through the rooms, studying the portraits of people ... Weiterlesen

Michael Cunningham: The Snow Queen

USA 2014, 272 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Harper Collins
It's November 2004. Barrett Meeks, a poetically minded man in his late 30s who has just been dumped by his most recent boyfriend via text message, shares a Brooklyn apartment with Tyler, his older musician-bartender brother, and Beth, Tyler's great love. Barrett is walking through Central Park when he is inspired to look up at the sky. There he sees ... Weiterlesen

Mitzi Szereto: The Wilde Passions of Dorian Gray

USA 2013, 228 pp., pb., € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Cleis
Inspired by Oscar Wilde's classic novel »The Picture of Dorian Gray«, Mitzi Szereto's »Wilde Passions of Dorian Gray« continues where Wilde left off with the Faustian tale of a man of eternal youth and great physical beauty who lives a life of corruption, decadence and hedonism. The story begins in the bordellos of Jazz-age Paris, moving to the opium dens ... Weiterlesen

Alexander McCall Smith: What W.H. Auden Can Do for You

USA 2013, 137 pp., hardbound, € 39.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Princeton University Press
Author McCall Smith calls poet W.H. Auden not only the greatest literary discovery of his life but also the best of guides on how to live. In this book, McCall Smith has written a charming personal account about what Auden has done for him - and what he just might do for you. Part self-portrait, part literary appreciation, the book ... Weiterlesen

John Irving: In One Person

UK 2013, 623 pp., Pb, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Black Swan
John Irving's 13th novel tells the outrageous story of bisexual novelist Billy Abbott, who comes of age in the uptight 1950s and explores his sexuality through the decades into the plague-ridden 1980s and finally to a more positive present day. Sexual confusion sets in early for Billy, simultaneously attracted to both the female librarian and golden boy wrestler Jacques Kittredge, ... Weiterlesen

Chris Adrian: The Great Night

UK 2012, 293 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Granta Books
It's Midsummer's Eve and three heartbroken lovers are trapped in San Francisco's Buena Vista Park: the verdant home of Titania and Oberon's embattled court, the stage-set of a homeless theatre troupe and the lair of the malevolent, vengeful Puck. When Titania, collapsing under the weight of her own recent grief, sets Puck free, all hell - quite literally - breaks ... Weiterlesen

Alan Hollinghurst: The Stranger's Child

UK 2012, 564 pp., pb, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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

Elif Shafak: The Forty Rules of Love

USA 2011, 355 pp., pb., € 12.90
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love. So when Ella reads a manuscript about the 13th-century Sufi poet Rumi and Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of life ... Weiterlesen

John Waters: Role Models

USA 2011, 304 pp. with b/w photographs, brochure, € 15.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Here, from the incomparable John Waters, is a paean to the power of subversive inspiration that will delight, amuse, enrich, and happily horrify readers everywhere. »Role Models« is, in fact, a self-portrait told through intimate profiles of favorite personalities - some famous, some unknown, some criminal, some surprisingly middle-of-the-road. From Esther Martin, owner of the scariest bar in Baltimore, to ... Weiterlesen

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

Jon Macy: Teleny and Camille

USA 2010, 240 pp., brochure, € 29.99
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Northwest
Jon Macy, longtime contributor to gay comics publications has adapted a moving and erotic gay love story from Oscar Wilde's classic »Teleny«. Camille, a wealthy young gentleman in Victorian London, falls in love with the handsome and mesmerizing pianist Teleny. While Teleny performs on stage, the two star-crossed lovers discover they share a psychic link in the form of an ... Weiterlesen

Alan Bennett: The Habit of Art

A Play. USA 2010, 88 pp., brochure, € 13.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Faber and Faber
Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, »Death in Venice«, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W. H. Auden. During this imagined meeting, their first in twenty-five years, they are observed and interrupted by, among others, their future biographer and a young man from the local bus station. Alan Bennett's new play is ... Weiterlesen