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Michael Cunningham: The Hours

Michael Cunningham: The Hours

GB 2006, 230 pp., pb,, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
HarperPerennial
In 1920s London, Virginia Woolf is fighting against her rebellious spirit as she attempts to make a start on her new novel. A young wife and mother, broiling in a suburb of 1940s Los Angeles, yearns to escape and read her precious copy of »Mrs Dalloway.« And Clarissa Vaughan steps out of her smart Greenwich village apartment in 1990s New ... Weiterlesen

Alan Hollinghurst: The Spell

Alan Hollinghurst: The Spell

UK 2006, 257 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Vintage
»The Spell« is a comedy of sexual manners that follows the interlocking affairs of four men: Robin, an architect in his late forties, who is trying to build an idyllic life in Dorset with his younger lover, Justin, Robin's 22 year old son Danny, a volatile beauty who lives for clubbing and casual sex, and the shy Alex, who is ... Weiterlesen

Alon Hilu: Death of a Monk

Alon Hilu: Death of a Monk

UK 2006, 308 pp.,brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Vintage
In 1840s Damascus, Aslan Farhi leads a miserable life. Despised by his wealthy father, bullied by his siblings, and humiliated by his mother, he forms a close friendship with another boy, only for him to mysteriously disappear when their relationship becomes public knowledge. Aslan is horrified when his father arranges for him to be married to the rabbi's daughter, but ... Weiterlesen

Dennis Cooper: Frisk

Dennis Cooper: Frisk

USA 1991, 128 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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

Larry Duplechan: Blackbird

Larry Duplechan: Blackbird

USA 2006, 252 pp., brochure, € 15.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
First published by St. Martin's in 1986, »Blackbird« is a funny, moving, gay coming-of-age novel about growing up black and gay in Southern California. The lead character, Johnnie Ray Rousseau, is a high school student upset at losing the lead role in the school staging of »Romeo and Juliet«. If that weren't enough, his best friend has been beaten badly ... Weiterlesen

Oscar Wilde: Teleny or The Reverse of the Medal

Oscar Wilde: Teleny or The Reverse of the Medal

UK 2006, 138 pp., pb., € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
mint editions
The gay erotic novel »Teleny« is an important antithesis to the prudish idealism of the neo-classic and neo-romantic lyric love poetry of the fin du siecle. It is a work of unmasking the cynical double moral standards of the Victorian era: The love of Camille and Teleny is shattered by social reprisals. The book was published in 1893 in 200 ... Weiterlesen

Patrick Gale: Friendly Fire

Patrick Gale: Friendly Fire

UK 2006, 342 pp., pb, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Youthful beauty, intellectual brilliance, physical passion, tragedy and disgrace are all in this wonderful novel as told through the eyes of a 14-year-old girl. Sophie is a self-contained, exceptionally bright child who has no known parents and has spent all her life in a children's home. Her life is transformed when she wins a scholarship to Tatham's, a kind of ... Weiterlesen

Rigoberto González: Butterfly Boy

Rigoberto González: Butterfly Boy

USA 2006, 207 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
University of Wisconsin Press
Growing up among poor migrant Mexican farmworkers, Rigoberto González faces the pressure of coming-of-age as a gay man in a culture that prizes machismo. Losing his mother when he is twelve, González must then confront his father's abandonment and an abiding sense of cultural estrangement, both from his adopted home in the United States and from a Mexican birthright. His ... Weiterlesen

Michael Cunningham: Helle Tage

Michael Cunningham: Helle Tage

Dt. v. Georg Schmidt. D 2006, 382 S., Pb, € 9.77
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
btb
Wie schon in »Ein Zuhause am Ende der Welt« und in »Die Stunden« verbindet Michael Cunninghams neues Buch mehrere Zeit- und Beobachtungsebenen, um etwas Neues aus etwas Altem entstehen zu lassen. Drei raffiniert miteinander verflochtene Geschichten - eine spielt während der industriellen Revolution, eine in der Gegenwart, eine in der Zukunft - beschreiben das Leben in New York. Es geht ... Weiterlesen

Tahar Ben Jelloun: Verlassen

Tahar Ben Jelloun: Verlassen

Dt. v. Christiane Kayser. D 2006, 265 S., Pb, € 10.18
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Eine ganze Generation von Marokkanern hat nichts anderes im Kopf, als so schnell wie möglich das Land zu verlassen und nach Europa aufzubrechen, in dem alles besser und schöner sein soll. Bei schönem Wetter sieht man von Tanger zur spanischen Küste hinüber. In Träumen sind die jungen Männer längst drüben. Doch nur wie soll man es anstellen? Azel, der nach ... Weiterlesen

Curzio Malaparte: Die Haut

Curzio Malaparte: Die Haut

Dt.v. Hellmut Ludwig. D 2006, 445 S., Pb, € 27.90
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Fischer
Curzio Malaparte beschreibt in seinem Hauptwerk »Die Haut« einen eigentümlichen chaotischen Zwischen-Zustand, der in Neapel am Ende des 2. Weltkriegs eingetreten ist: die Deutschen sind abgezogen, die Faschisten geschlagen, die US-Amerikaner stehen kurz davor, in die schöne süditalienische Stadt einzumarschieren. Die alte Ordnung ist zusammengebrochen, eine neue noch nicht etabliert. In dieser Situation versucht jeder seine Haut zu retten und ... Weiterlesen

Nick Nolan: Strings Attached

Nick Nolan: Strings Attached

USA 2006, 291 pp., brochure, € 17.40
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
17 year-old Jeremy Tyler is the puppet of Tiffany, his alcoholic mother. But when she is forced to rehab, Jeremy moves from the slums to the cliff-top estate of Katherine Tyler and Bill Mortson. Stunned by the wealth surrounding him, Jeremy thinks he's landed in paradise until the couple begins dictating his every move. Jeremy tries to fit in with ... Weiterlesen

John Weir: What I Did Wrong

John Weir: What I Did Wrong

USA 2006, 243 pp., brochure, € 13.89
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
42-year-old novelist and College professor Tom, who survived his 20s and 30s in a New York ravaged by AIDS, encounters a lifetime of demons during one jam-packed day in May 2000. Tom's straight boyhood friend Richie, thinking he may be out of his depth on an Internet-arranged date, is bringing Tom along to chaperone. As the two navigate the five ... Weiterlesen

Samuel Park: Shakespeare's Sonnets

Samuel Park: Shakespeare's Sonnets

USA 2006, 239 pp., hardbound, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Harvard 1948: Adam Standridge is a student at Harvard University with dreams of becoming a literary scholar. He's from a rich and influential family, and has become engaged to the perfect girl. His life plan is set until he's busted by the campus police for having sex with a man in a public place. Threatened with expulsion, Adam re-focuses his ... Weiterlesen

Aaron Hamburger: Faith for Beginners

Aaron Hamburger: Faith for Beginners

USA 2006, 355 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
In the summer of 2000, Israel teeters between total war and total peace. Similarly on edge, Helen Michaelson, a respectable suburban housewife from Michigan, has brought her ailing husband and rebellious college-age son, Jeremy, to Jerusalem. She hopes the journey will inspire Jeremy to reconnect with his faith and find meaning in his life - or, at least, get rid ... Weiterlesen

  
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