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

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

Dt. v. Georg Schmidt. D 2006, 382 S., Pb, € 9.77
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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

Dt. v. Christiane Kayser. D 2006, 265 S., Pb, € 10.18
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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

Nick Nolan: Strings Attached

USA 2006, 291 pp., brochure, € 17.40
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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

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

USA 2006, 239 pp., hardbound, € 24.95
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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

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

Oliver Fehn: Und möchte mit Fremden tanzen

D 2006, 270S., Broschur, € 16.35
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Mit 17 hat sich Vincent in einen neuen Mitschüler namens Marlon verliebt. Zusehends befallen Vincent Zweifel, ob Marlon auch der richtige ist. Vincents bester Freund Lucky warnt ihn vergebens, er unterstellt Marlon ein tückisches Wesen. Für Vincent ist es jedoch schon zu spät. Der gut aussehende Marlon spielt seine Reize voll aus, so dass Vinzent ihm gänzlich verfällt und fast ... Weiterlesen

Ethan Mordden: How's Your Romance?

USA 2006, 274 pp., brochure, € 14.79
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
For a generation, Ethan Mordden's tales about a tightly knit circle of friends who live within the shifting confines of gay Manhattan have entertained thousands of readers and devoted fans. Now Mordden returns to his best-loved characters - the ultimate hunk Carlo, the best friend Dennis Savage, J. (who was once Little Kiwi), Cosgrove the maturing elf-child, and narrator and ... Weiterlesen

Allison Burnett: The House Beautiful

USA 2006, 231 pp., brochure, € 14.79
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
B.K. Troop is a middle-aged, witty, bipolar, alcoholic homosexual living alone in a cramped New York apartment. When his best friend, Sasha Buchwitz, dies following a much-needed round of electroconvulsive therapy, she leaves him her Manhattan brownstone, changing B.K.'s life forever. To afford the property tax, he turns his new home into a colony for young, struggling artists, to whom ... Weiterlesen

Vernon B. Clay: Friends, Lovers, and Roses

USA 2006, 367 pp., brochure, € 19.39
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
This fast-moving romantic drama follows three gay African-American couples (and their Puerto Rican confidant) through the twists and turns of building (and sometimes, destroying) relationships. Their stories - funny one moment, frightening the next - reveal the hard truths about the journey from lust to love and about the choices they make along the way. The book introduces you to ... Weiterlesen

Jaffe Cohen: Tush

USA 2006, 361 pp., brochure, € 14.79
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
After his zodiac chart is read by a great psychic, Joel Eisenberg studies astrology and becomes the most famous media queen in the field. The author of a best-selling book and a nationally syndicated radio show regular, Joel manages to parlay his intuitive skills, gift for gab, and unbridled shamelessness by getting all the cute guys home for a reading ... Weiterlesen

Kim Powers: The History of Swimming

USA 2006, 291 pp., hardcover, € 23.90
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
This book »The History of Swimming« details author Kim Powers' frantic search for his twin brother Tim - both his best friend and his greatest enemy - who disappears all of a sudden from Manhattan one weekend in his late twenties. Kim - almost mystically - imagines that the clues to Tim's whereabouts have been planted in a series of ... Weiterlesen

Alaa Al Aswany: The Yacoubian Building

USA 2006, 255pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
All manner of flawed and fragile humanity reside in the Yacoubian Building, a once-elegant temple of Art Deco splendor now slowly decaying in the smog and bustle of downtown Cairo: a fading aristocrat and self-proclaimed »scientist of women«, a sultry, voluptuous siren, a devout young student, feeling the irresistible pull toward fundamentalism, a newspaper editor helplessly in love with a ... Weiterlesen