John Boyne: A Ladder to the Sky

UK 2018, 448 pp., pb., € 12.95
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Black Swan
If you look hard enough, you will find stories pretty much anywhere. They don't even have to be your own. Or so would-be-novelist Maurice Swift decides early on in his career. A chance encounter in a Berlin hotel with celebrated gay author Erich Ackerman gives Maurice an opportunity. For Erich is lonely, and he has a story to tell; whether ... Weiterlesen

Will Self: Dorian

UK 2009, 278 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Penguin UK
Set against the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and '90s, Will Self's »Dorian« is a shameless reworking of our most significant myth of shamelessness. It is the summer of 1981 and Henry Wotton, uneasily gay, egregiously drug addicted, and queasily snobbish, is at the center of a Chelsea clique dedicated to timeless dissolution. His friend Baz Hallward, a sometime Warhol ... Weiterlesen