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Thema: Drogen



Jude Gorini: The Colourblind Grief

Jude Gorini: The Colourblind Grief

UK 2023, 202 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Experiments in Fiction
London 2011, the year before the Olympics. The city is buzzing, and Daniel is just starting his journey into living a gay life of short-term sex-dates as his only remaining option. Sex, drugs and rock & roll are his sustenance. His mental health issues warp his life. 10 years later, everything has changed. Was it just a lie created by ... Weiterlesen

Colton Haynes: Miss Memory Lane

Colton Haynes: Miss Memory Lane

A Memoir. UK 2023, 256 pp., brochure , € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Simon and Schuster
In 2018, Colton Haynes woke up in a hospital. He'd had two seizures, lost vision in one eye, almost ruptured a kidney, and been put on an involuntary psychiatric hold. Not yet 30, he knew he had to take stock of his life and make some serious changes if he wanted to see his next birthday. As he worked towards ... Weiterlesen

Pola Oloixarac: Mona

Pola Oloixarac: Mona

Transl. by Adam Morris. UK 2022, 176 pp., hardback, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Serpent´s Tail
Mona is a Peruvian writer based on a Californian campus, open-eyed and sardonic, a connoisseur of marijuana and prescription pills. She has discovered being an anthropological curiosity - a female writer of colour treasured for diversity in her department. When she is nominated for »the most important literary award in Europe«, Mona sees a chance to escape and leaves for ... Weiterlesen

Adam Zmith: Deep Sniff

Adam Zmith: Deep Sniff

A History of Poppers and Queer Futures. UK 2021, 180 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Watkins
3, 2, 1... inhale, deep. From the Victorian infirmary and the sex clubs of the 1970s, poppers vapour has released the queer potential inside us all. This is the intriguing story of how poppers wafted out of the lab and into gay bars, corner shops, bedrooms and porn supercuts. Blending historical research with wry observation, Adam Zmith explores the cultural ... Weiterlesen

Augusten Burroughs: Dry

Augusten Burroughs: Dry

USA 2013, 293 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
An advertising executive remembers his childhood with his eccentric foster family and his early adulthood experiences of trying to establish an independent life for himself having finally become an alcoholic. When the ordinary person had two drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve; when the ordinary person went home at midnight, Augusten never went home at all. Loud, ... Weiterlesen

Bill Clegg: Ninety Days

Bill Clegg: Ninety Days

USA 2013, 195 pp., pb., € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
The goal is ninety - just ninety clean and sober days to loosen the hold of the addiction that caused Bill Clegg to lose everything. Six weeks out of his most recent rehab, Clegg returns to New York and starts attending two or three meetings each day. It is in these refuges that he befriends essential new allies including Polly, ... Weiterlesen

Mitzi Szereto: The Wilde Passions of Dorian Gray

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

Daniel Allen Cox: Basement of Wolves

Daniel Allen Cox: Basement of Wolves

CAN 2012, 192 pp., brochure, € 15.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Arsenal Pulp Press
In this taut, beautifully layered novel by Lambda Literary, ReLit, and Ferro-Grumley Award finalist Cox, Michael-David is a paranoid actor who feels that fame has ruined him. When a film shoot with wolves for co-stars takes a troubling turn, he disappears shortly before the premiere and barricades himself in an L.A. hotel, convinced that he's cursed and must ride it ... Weiterlesen

Carter Sickels: The Evening Hour

Carter Sickels: The Evening Hour

USA 2012, 328 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bloomsbury
Most of the wealth in Dove Creek, West Virginia, is in the mountains - in the coal seams that have provided generations with a way of life, but little prosperity. Born here and raised by his Pentecoastal grandfather, 27-year-old Cole Freeman sidestepped work as a miner to become an aide in a nursing home. He's got a shock of bleached ... Weiterlesen

Bill Clegg: Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man: A Memoir

Bill Clegg: Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man: A Memoir

USA 2010, 222 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bill Clegg had a thriving business as a literary agent, a supportive partner, trusting colleagues, and loving friends when he walked away from his world and embarked on a two-month crack binge. He had been released from rehab nine months earlier, and his relapse would cost him his home, his money, his career, and very nearly his life. What is ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Stoddard: White, Christian

Christopher Stoddard: White, Christian

USA 2010, 209pp., brochure, € 18.20
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
20-year-old Christian White is attractive, droll, addicted, frightened, cynical, homosexual, infantile, campy, sexually compulsive, fragile, but somehow dynamic. He's a poster boy for a long list of contemporary dysfunctions. His borderline lifestyle is a carnival of drugs and sex, accessorized by designer clothes and frequent stealing or scamming. Underneath the decadence are haunting memories of childhood abuse, the death of ... Weiterlesen

William S. Burroughs: The Wild Boys

William S. Burroughs: The Wild Boys

UK 2008, 184 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
In this funny, nightmarish masterpiece of imaginative excess, grotesque characters engage in acts of violent one-upmanship, boundless riches mangle a corner of Africa into a Bacchanalian utopia, and technology, flesh and violence fuse with and undo each other. A fragmentary, freewheeling novel, it sees wild boys engage in vigorous, ritualistic sex and drug taking, as well as pranksterish guerrilla warfare ... Weiterlesen

William S. Burroughs: Junky

William S. Burroughs: Junky

UK 2008, 166 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Burroughs' first novel, a largely autobiographical account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses, remains the most unflinching, unsentimental account of addiction ever written. Through junk neighbourhoods in New York, New Orleans and Mexico City, through time spent kicking, time spent dealing and time rolling drunks for money, through junk sickness and a sanatorium, »Junky« is a ... Weiterlesen

Michael Harmon: The Last Exit to Normal

Michael Harmon: The Last Exit to Normal

USA 2008, 275 pp., hardback, € 12.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
It's true: After 14-year-old Ben's father announces he's gay and the family splits apart, Ben does everything he can to tick him off: skip school, smoke pot, skateboard nonstop, get arrested. Three years, countless joints, and one arrest later Ben finds himself yanked out of his city life and plunked down into a small Montana town with his dad and ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Rice: Light Before Day

Christopher Rice: Light Before Day

USA 2007, 472 pp., Pb, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
26-year-old journalist Adam Murphy is chasing a career-making story when he is suspiciously fired by the magazine that employs him. Scarred by the failure of a recent relationship, and haunted by the violent death of his alcoholic mother, Adam finds himself cut adrift in West Hollywood. Determined to expose the facts behind the suicide of the Marine pilot, he discovers ... Weiterlesen

Frank Sanello: Tweakers

Frank Sanello: Tweakers

USA 2005, 249 pp., brochure, € 14.79
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
The author examines how crystal abuse is reaching epidemic levels among gay men. Tweakers get a quick cheap high, an exhilarating loss of inhibition, and increased stamina at the price of permanent behavioral changes, brain damage, and death due not only to the dangers associated with routine methamphetamine use but also the horrifying side-effects brought on by the reagenting ingredients ... Weiterlesen

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