Peter Cameron: Die Stadt am Ende der Zeit

Dt.v. Oliver Wolfskehl. D 2004, 313 S., Pb, € 8.74
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Der junge Student Omar reist nach Uruguay, um die Autorisierung für seine geplante Biographie über den verstorbenen Autor Jules Gund zu bekommen. Damit er sein Buch schreiben kann, benötigt er die Zustimmung von Jules' schwulem Bruder Adam Gund, der Witwe Caroline Gund und der Geliebten Arden Langdon. Bei Arden und Adam hat er keine Probleme, die Zustimmung zu bekommen. Nur bei Caroline hat er es ziemlich schwer. Am Ende schafft ... Weiterlesen
(Alex empfiehlt - Winter Katalog 2004)

Richard Siken: Crush

USA 2004, 62 pp., pb., € 24.95
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Yale University Press
Richard Siken's »Crush«, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by panic and obsession. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. His poetry is confessional, gay, savage, and charged with violent eroticism. In the world of American poetry, Siken's voice is striking. In her introduction ... Weiterlesen

Stephen Fry: The Stars' Tennis Balls

UK 2004, 436 pp., Pb, € 14.95
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Arrow
Ned Maddstone has the world at his feet. He is handsome, talented and about to go to Cambridge, after which he is expected to follow his father into politics. But an unfortunate confrontation with a boy in his school results in a prank that goes badly wrong and suddenly he's incarcerated - without chance of release. So begins a year ... Weiterlesen

Stephen Fry: Moab is My Washpot

UK 2004, 436 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Stephen Fry's bestselling memoir tells how, sent to a boarding school 200 miles from home at the age of seven, he survived beatings, misery, love, ecstasy, carnal violation, expulsion, imprisonment, criminal conviction, probation and catastrophe to emerge, at eighteen, ready to try and face the world in which he had always felt a stranger. Fry writes with the wit to ... Weiterlesen

Glenway Wescott: Apartment in Athens

Introduction by David Leavitt. USA 2004, 268 pp., brochure, € 38.95
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NYRB
»Apartment in Athens« (first published in 1945) concerns an unusual triangular relationship. In this story about a Greek couple in Nazi-occupied Athens who are forced to share their quarters with a German officer, gay author Wescott stages a drama of accommodation and rejection, resistance and compulsion. »Apartment in Athens« depicts a great and terrible war through the lens of everyday ... Weiterlesen

John Rechy: The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens

USA 2004, 324 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Publishers Group West
Modeled on the classic 18th-century picaresques like Fielding's »The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling« and Defoe's »Moll Flanders«, »The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens« is the modern-day bildungsroman of a prodigiously attractive young Texan named Lyle Clemens. Lyle is kind of a holy fool who, like Chance in »Being There«, illuminates the actions, motivations, and prejudices of others ... Weiterlesen

Andrew Sean Greer: The Confessions of Max Tivoli

UK/USA 2004, 271 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Faber and Faber
Set in San Francisco a hundred years ago, it is the story of a man who suffers from a rare medical condition and, in a sense, lives life backwards. Max Tivoli is writing the story of his life. He is nearly seventy years old, but he looks as if he is only seven - for Max is ageing backwards. The ... Weiterlesen

Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass

USA 2004, 490 pp., Pb, € 14.95
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Oxford University Press
One of the great innovative figures in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. »Leaves Of Grass« is his one book. First published in 1855 with only twelve poems, it was greeted by Ralph Waldo Emerson as »the wonderful gift . . . the most extraordinary piece ... Weiterlesen

Stephen Fry: The Hippopotamus

UK 2004, 416 pp., Pb, € 17.95
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Arrow
Ted Wallace is an old, sour, womanising, cantankerous, whisky-sodden beast of a failed poet and drama critic, but he has his faults too. Fired from his newspaper, months behind on his alimony payments and disgusted with a world that undervalues him, Ted seeks a few months repose and free drink at Swafford Hall, the country mansion of his old friend ... Weiterlesen

Colum McCann: Der Tänzer

D 2004, 474 S., Pb, € 12.40
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Rowohlt
Rudolf Nurejew galt als einer der größten Tänzer aller Zeiten. McCann begibt sich in seinem Roman auf die Spuren eines Künstlerlebens. Aus der Sicht der Wegbegleiter des Genies erzählt, entsteht ein schillerndes Kaleidoskop, das von Ost und West, Partyleben und Künstlereinsamkeit, Genialität, Trieb und Tod erzählt. Dieses Buch nähert sich einem berühmten Mann: dem Tänzer Rudolph Nurejew, Lichtgestalt des modernen ... Weiterlesen

Gordon Merrick: Ein Fall von Liebe

D 2004, 320 S., PB, € 10.23
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Bruno Gmünder
Charlie, Anfang 20, verbringt den Sommer bei seiner Großmutter bevor er sich in das New Yorker Berufsleben stürzt. Für Gesellschaft hat die umsichtige Dame bereits gesorgt und Peter, einen entfernten Verwandten gleichen Alters, eingeladen. Es beginnt eine gefühlvolle, energiegeladene, leidenschaftliche, erotische Liebe zwischen den beiden jungen Männern, die an Vorurteilen und Intrigen zunächst zerbricht. Doch die schmerzliche Trennung währt nur ... Weiterlesen

Alan Sheridan: Time and Place

UK 2004, 488 pp., brochure, € 13.89
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The narrator of this narrative is Mark Sheridan. Born into the theatrical family of his uncle, R.B Sheridan, he recounts his years with a traveling theatre company, and his turbulent love affair with Edmond, a young actor. Interwoven are flashbacks to his turbulent earlier life and a pre-war world long vanished, his childhood in China, his schooldays in Paris, the ... Weiterlesen

Timothy J. Beck: I'm Your Man

USA 2004, 376 pp., brochure, € 11.49
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At thirtysomething, Blaine Dunhill has a great career in fashion advertising, a fab NYC apartment, and some loyal friends that he's trying to share amicably with his ex, a famous soap star. Working in the big-time cosmetics world is all about glamour and artifice (»Like Barbies that can talk«), but what the self-professed nice guy from Wisconsin really wants is ... Weiterlesen

David Sedaris: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

USA 2004, 245 pp., pb, € 14.95
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Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn't it? In his new collection of ... Weiterlesen

Louise Welsh: Tamburlaine Must Die

UK 2004, 152 pp., pb, € 12.29
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1593: London is a city on edge. Under threat from plague and war, it's a desperate place where strangers are unwelcome and severed heads grin from spikes on Tower Bridge. Playwright, poet and spy, Christopher Marlowe has three days to live. Three days in which he confronts dangerous government factions, double agents, necromancy, betrayal and revenge. He's accused of being ... Weiterlesen