James Purdy: Cabot Wright Begins

USA 2013, 252 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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W. W. Norton
First appearing in the stifling cultural climate of early 1960s America, »Cabot Wright Begins«, despite exuberant reviews from a few of America's most astute reviewers, was regarded, given its shocking and disturbing content, as far too ahead of its time. It tells the story of Chicago car salesman Bernie Gladhart who, spurred on by his ambitious wife, decides to write ... Weiterlesen

James Hanley: Boy

UK 2012, 212 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Alma
A gay classic of working-class sexuality, acclaimed by luminaries such as William Faulkner and suppressed for more than 50 years by a prosecution for obscenity James Hanley's 1930s classic charts the short and brutish life of a boy forced out of school and into the unforgiving world of work. Escape - in the form of stowing away on a ship ... Weiterlesen

Neil Bartlett: Skin Lane

UK 2008, 344 pp., brochure, € 14.79
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Mr. Freeman (aka Mr. F), a 46-year-old fur-skinner, has worked in the same office at the same job in a quiet London backwater for 33 years. Then, in early January 1967, he starts to have disturbing dreams that feature the nude corpse of an attractive young man - tied up in his bathroom. The dream repeats itself several nights in ... 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

Brane Mozetic: Passion

Engl. by Tamara Soban. USA 2005, 126 pp., brochure, € 19.39
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Brane Mozetic is a Slovenian poet, fiction writer, essayist, and gay activist. In this collection of short stories, he traces the geography of modern sexuality both devoid of affection or sentimentality and obsessed with issues of power and control. He is pursuing an art that dares to explore the darkest aspects of queer life in the urban milieu, a personal ... Weiterlesen