Mary Renault: The Persian Boy

UK 2014, 476 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Part 2 of a classic trilogy on the life of Alexander the Great - covering the last 7 years of his life from the perspective of his devoted Persian lover, the eunuch Bagoas. Abducted and gelded as a boy, Bagoas was sold as a courtesan to King Darius of Persia, but eventually found his freedom with Alexander. Bagoas' extraordinary cultivation ... Weiterlesen

Guillaume Dustan: The Works Volume 1: Novels: In My Room, I'm Going Out Tonight, Stronger Than Me

UK 2013, 374 pp., brochure, € 27.95
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Guillaume Dustan' first three novels, published in French between 1996 and 1998, describing the narrator's sexual odyssey through a Paris still haunted by AIDS. This volume collects a suite of three wildly entertaining and trailblazing short novels by the legendary French anti-assimilationist gay writer Guillaume Dustan. Published sequentially in France between 1996 and 1998, the three novels are exuberant and ... Weiterlesen

David Sedaris: Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

UK 2013, 275 pp., pb., € 14.95
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Little Brown
A guy walks into a bar car and... - From here the story could take many turns. When this guy is David Sedaris, the possibilities are endless, but the result is always the same: he will both delight you with twists of humor and intelligence and leave you deeply moved. Sedaris remembers his father's dinnertime attire (shirtsleeves and underpants), his ... Weiterlesen

Bernardine Evaristo: Mr Loverman

UK 2013, 307 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Penguin UK
Barrington Jedidiah Walker. Barry to his friends. Trouble to his wife. Seventy-four years old, Antiguan born and bred, flamboyant Hackney personality Barry is known for his dapper taste and fondness for retro suits. He is a husband, father and grandfather. And for the past sixty years, he has been in a relationship with his childhood friend and soulmate, Morris. Wife ... Weiterlesen

Klaus Funke: Die Geistesbrüder

Roman einer Künstlerfreundschaft. Karl May und Sascha Schneider. D 2013, 432 S., geb., € 20.60
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Husum
Dresden und Weimar zwischen 1903 und 1906: Die schicksalhafte Begegnung zwischen Karl May und dem schwulen Maler Sascha Schneider, einem der begabtesten Schüler Max Klingers, führt zu einer intensiven Freundschaft zweier Brüder im Geiste . An langen Abenden wird diskutiert: Politisches, Künstlerisches und Weltanschauliches. Das Buch ist eine Art Parabel auf den misslungenen Wandlungsversuch des Schriftstellers, der wie vieles in ... Weiterlesen

Augusten Burroughs: Dry

USA 2013, 293 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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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

John Rechy: City of Night

UK 2009, 384 pp., pb., € 19.95
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Grove Press
When John Rechy's explosive first novel appeared in 1963, it marked a radical departure in fiction, and gave voice to a subculture that had never before been revealed with such acuity. It earned comparisons to Genet and Kerouac, even as Rechy was personally attacked by scandalized reviewers. Nevertheless, the book became an international bestseller, and fifty years later (2013), it ... Weiterlesen

Amber Dermont: The Starboard Sea

USA 2013, 352 pp., pb., € 9.95
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Jason Prosper grew up in the elite world of Manhattan penthouses, Maine summer estates, old boy prep schools and exclusive sailing clubs. A smart, athletic teenager, Jason maintains a healthy, humorous disdain for the trappings of affluence, preferring to spend afternoons sailing with Cal, his best friend and boarding school roommate - and his gay lover. When Cal commits suicide ... Weiterlesen

Bill Clegg: Ninety Days

USA 2013, 195 pp., pb., € 17.95
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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

Roy Francis Ley (Hg.): Sommergayflüster

Ö 2013, 136 S., Broschur, € 9.99
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Homo Littera
Warum fürchtet sich Lars, eine feste Beziehung zu Stefan einzugehen? Kann eine Liebe gesellschaftliche Normen brechen? Und was glaubt Paul zu erreichen, wenn er sich bei Viktor nicht mehr meldet? Kann ein Obdachloser wieder festen Fuß fassen? Und müssen Tattoos immer sichtbar sein? Was passiert mit einer verhängnisvollen SMS, während Mark sich heimlich auf Toiletten rumtreibt? Auf erotische und sinnliche ... Weiterlesen

Yara Nacht: Sündhafte Begierde der Verdammnis II

Ö 2013, 176 S., Broschur, € 13.00
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Homo Littera
Auf Mortem Castle entrinnt Valentin nur knapp dem Tod. Dennoch entflammt seine Liebe zu Bastian immer mehr. Als mehrere ausgehobene Gräber im Ort für Angst und Unruhe sorgen, schlägt sich Valentin trotz aller Warnungen auf Bastians Seite. Zum ersten Mal ist er glücklich und genießt sein Leben. Doch diese Liebe ist nicht nur Tamber ein Dorn im Auge, der seinen ... Weiterlesen

Glenway Wescott: A Visit to Priapus and Other Stories

USA 2013, 200 pp., hardback, € 26.95
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University of Wisconsin Press
Just as E. M. Forster's novel of gay love, »Maurice«, remained unpublished throughout his lifetime, Glenway Wescott's long story »A Visit to Priapus« was also destined to be a posthumous work, buried in Wescott's massive archive of manuscripts, journals, notebooks, and letters. The autobiographical story is about a literary man, frustrated in love, who puts aside his pride and makes ... Weiterlesen

William S. Burroughs: The Adding Machine

USA 2013, 224 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Publishers Group West
William S. Burroughs has produced a body of work unique in our time. In these scintillating essays, he writes wittily and wisely about himself, his interests, his influences, his friends and foes. He offers candid and not always flattering assessments of such diverse writers as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Samuel Beckett, ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Isherwood: Mr Norris Changes Trains

UK 2013, 200 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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On a train to Berlin in late 1930, William Bradshaw locks eyes with Arthur Norris, an irresistibly comical fellow Englishman wearing a rather obvious wig and nervous about producing his passport at the frontier. So begins a friendship conducted in the seedier quarters of the city, where Norris runs a dubious import-export business and lives in excited fear of his ... Weiterlesen

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