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Armistead Maupin: Michael Tolliver lebt

Armistead Maupin: Michael Tolliver lebt

Die neuesten Stadtgeschichten (VII). Dt.v. Michael Kellner. D 2010, 318 S., Pb, € 9.20
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Rowohlt - Stadtgeschichten 7
Der neue Roman von Armistead Maupin spielt 15 Jahre nach dem Ende des 6. Bandes der Stadtgeschichten. Michael Tolliver, der nette schwule Südstaatler, den alle Mouse nennen, bringt den Leser auf den neuesten Stand. Der 55jährige Gärtner hat anders als viele seiner Freunde und Liebhaber das große Sterben der 80er und 90er Jahre überlebt. Und das trotz seines Status als ... Weiterlesen

Dennis Cooper: Ugly Man: Stories

Dennis Cooper: Ugly Man: Stories

USA 2009, 240 pp., pb., € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
HarperPerennial
Internationally acclaimed writer Dennis Cooper continues to study the material he's always explored honestly, but does so now - in stories - with a sense of awareness and a satirical touch that exploits and winks at his mastery of this world. As it has done for decades, Cooper's taut, controlled prose lays bare the compulsions and troubling emptiness of the ... Weiterlesen

John Berendt: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

John Berendt: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

UK 1994, 389 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Sceptre
Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's suspenseful narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a work of ... Weiterlesen

Andrew Sean Greer: The Story of a Marriage

Andrew Sean Greer: The Story of a Marriage

UK 2008, 233 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Faber and Faber
It is 1953 and Pearlie, a dutiful housewife, finds herself living in the Sunset District of San Francisco, caring not only for her husband's fragile health but also for her son, who is afflicted with polio. Then, one Saturday morning, a stranger appears on her doorstep and everything changes. Her husband Holland and this man have had a gay relationship ... Weiterlesen

Jeremy Reed: Bona Drag

Jeremy Reed: Bona Drag

UK 2009, 126 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
»Bona Drag«, a rich, brilliantly inventive collection of poems covering every detail of the poet's obsessive life, from the colour of Posh Spice's heels, to London street encounters, underworld friends, urban survival tactics, neuroscientific concepts and extraterrestrials, more than confirms J.G. Ballard's assessment of Reed, as »the most gifted poet working today, an extraordinary talent.«

David Walliams: The Boy in the Dress

David Walliams: The Boy in the Dress

USA 2009, 236 pp., pb., € 10.00
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Harper Collins
Everybody needs friends especially a boy in a dress! Dennis' life is boring and lonely. His mother left two years ago, his truck driver father is depressed, his brother is a bully and, worst of all, no hugging is one of their household rules. But one thing Dennis does have is soccer: he's the leading scorer on his team. Oh, ... Weiterlesen

Mark Behr: Kings of the Water

Mark Behr: Kings of the Water

UK 2009, 242 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Abacus
Gay 35-year-old Michiel Steyn is living with his boyfriend Kamil in San Francisco. He has already spent close to half his lifetime abroad. Now he has to return to South Africa to attend his beloved mother's funeral. But neither Michiel nor those he left behind have truly come to terms with his terrible flight from the farm they called Paradise. ... Weiterlesen

Martin Sixsmith: Philomena

Martin Sixsmith: Philomena

UK 2009, 452 pp. pb, € 10.40
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Being a pregnant teenager Philomena Lee was sent to the convent at Roscrea to be looked after as a fallen woman. She cared for her baby for three years until the Church took him from her and sold him, like countless others, to America for adoption. Philomena's son, renamed Michael Hess, grew up to be a top Washington lawyer and ... Weiterlesen

Alain Claude Sulzer: A Perfect Waiter

Alain Claude Sulzer: A Perfect Waiter

Transl. by John Brownjohn. UK 2009, 215 pp., brochure, € 29.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Bloomsbury
This gay classic of the new century is now available in an English edition for the first time: Erneste is the perfect waiter, and his private life seems to embody the qualities he brings to his profession. But inwardly this polite and dignified man is in the grip of a violent passion: he yearns for a young waiter-in-training, Jakob, who ... Weiterlesen

Stephen Chbosky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Stephen Chbosky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

UK 2009, 232 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Simon and Schuster
Charlie is a freshman. And while he's not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. Shy, introspective, intelligent beyond his years yet socially awkward, he is a wallflower, caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it. Charlie is attempting to navigate his way through uncharted territory: the world of first ... Weiterlesen

Therese Roth: Nervenkostüme und andere Unruhen

Therese Roth: Nervenkostüme und andere Unruhen

D 2009, 156 S., Broschur, € 12.34
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
thealit - queer lab
Die fiktive Biografie erzählt einen Ausschnitt aus dem Leben von Paula Paura, vom ersten September bis zum neunten Oktober 2001. Zunächst geht es darum, welchen Irrungen und Wirrungen Paulas Nervenkostüm im Alltag ausgesetzt ist. Ein Alltag, der von einer entstehenden Liebesgeschichte, den Ereignissen in Genua, dem Attentat am elften September und der Hamburger Bürgerschaftswahl entscheidend geprägt ist. Nebenbei zeichnet sich ... Weiterlesen

James Hamilton-Paterson: Heilige der Trümmer

James Hamilton-Paterson: Heilige der Trümmer

Dt. v. Hans-Ulrich Möhring. D 2009, 284 S., Pb, € 10.27
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
btb
Eine rabenschwarze Komödie über launische Künstler, schräge Heiligenverehrung und gewagtes Essen: Gerald Samper - bekannt aus »Kochen mit Fernet-Branca« - hat eine ebenso kuriose wie spektakuläre, neue Vorspeise auf Fledermausbasis kreiert. Doch der kulinarische Wurf geht daneben: ein britischer Adliger stirbt im Kreis der Freunde bei deren Verzehr. Nun zieht sich Gerald - von Beruf Ghostwriter - beleidigt in die ... Weiterlesen

Valentine Honeyman: Stalking Richard & Judy

Valentine Honeyman: Stalking Richard & Judy

UK 2009, 298pp., brochure, € 18.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Old Street Publishing
For years the oft-mispronounced novelist Jeremy Canty has been writing books with fabulous reviews but terrible sales from his bedsite in South Greenwich. But when an old, detested rival gets his very first novel picked by Richard and Judy for their ultra-lucrative Book Club, Jeremy resolves to leave behind his honourable but penniless life and procure literary stardom at any ... Weiterlesen

Abdellah Taïa: Salvation Army

Abdellah Taïa: Salvation Army

Introduction by Edmund White. English by Frank Stock. USA 2009, 144 pp., brochure, € 16.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
An autobiographical novel by turns naïve and cunning, funny and moving, this most recent work by Moroccan expatriate Abdellah Taïa is a major addition to the new French literature emerging from the North African Arabic diaspora. This is a coming-of-age novel that tells the story of Taïa's life with complete disclosure - from a childhood bound by family order and ... Weiterlesen

Anzy Heidrun Holderbach: Yanko II: Baro Mangipe

Anzy Heidrun Holderbach: Yanko II: Baro Mangipe

D 2009, 432 S., Broschur, € 26.70
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
»Baro Mangipe« bedeutet in der Sprache der Roma soviel wie »große Leidenschaft« - darum geht es in der Fortsetzung des Romans »Yanko - Die Geschichte eines Roma«. Im ersten Teil hatte Yanko eine schwere Zeit durchgemacht. Er musste sich mit den Ansprüchen der Gesellschaft an ihn und mit seinen homosexuellen Neigungen auseinandersetzen. Die Verwirrungen hören nach wie vor nicht auf. ... Weiterlesen

  
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