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Autobiography of Alice B. Toklasby Gertrude SteinISBN 067972463X (0-679-72463-X)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Bartleby the Scrivenerby Herman MelvilleISBN 0684819104 (0-684-81910-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bartleby the Scrivener'Book summary:A lush edition of this short classic novel gains new perspective with the inclusion of black-and-white photographs depicting nineteenth-century Wall Street and the prison called the Tombs, where the story takes place. 15,000 first printing. [via]
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The Beautiful Room Is Emptyby Edmund WhiteISBN 0679755403 (0-679-75540-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Beautiful Room Is Empty'Book summary:When the narrator of White's poised yet scalding autobiographical novel first embarks on his sexual odyssey, it is the 1950s, and America is "a big gray country of families on drowsy holiday." That country has no room for a scholarly teenager with guilty but insatiable stirrings toward other men. Moving from a Midwestern college to the Stonewall Tavern on the night of the first gay uprising--and populated by eloquent queens, butch poseurs, and a fearfully incompetent shrink--The Beautiful Room is Empty conflates the acts of coming out and coming of age.
"With intelligence, candor, humor--and anger--White explores the most insidious aspects of oppression.... An impressive novel."--Washington Post book World [via]More editions of The Beautiful Room Is Empty:
Beauty Queenby Patricia N. WarrenISBN 0688033504 (0-688-03350-4)
Hardcover, Morrow
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The Best Little Boy in the World : 1998 Editionby John Reid, Andrew TobiasISBN 067960314X (0-679-60314-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Beyond Queer: Challenging Gay Left Orthodoxyby Bruce BawerISBN 0684827662 (0-684-82766-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Breakfast at Tiffany'sby Truman CapoteISBN 0679745653 (0-679-74565-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Brideshead Revisitedby Evelyn Waugh, Frank KermodeISBN 0679423001 (0-679-42300-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Evelyn Waughs most celebrated novel is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by wartime austerities; in so doing it also provides a profound study of the conflict between the demands of religion and the desires of the flesh. At once romantic, sensuous, comic, and somber, Brideshead Revisited transcends Waughs familiar satiric exploration of his cast of lords and ladies, Catholics and eccentrics, artists and misfits, revealing him to be an elegiac, lyrical novelist of the utmost feeling and lucidity.
The edition reprinted here contains Waughs revisions, made in 1959, and his preface to the revised edition.
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C.P. Cavafy Collected Poemsby C.P. Cavafy, Philip Sherrard, Edmund KeeleyISBN 0691069840 (0-691-06984-0)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poemsby Edmund Keeley, George Savidis, Philip SherrardISBN 0691015376 (0-691-01537-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Catholicby David PlanteISBN 0689117884 (0-689-11788-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Charioteer: A Novelby Mary RenaultISBN 0713905379 (0-7139-0537-9)
Hardcover, Allen Lane
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Cole Porter: A Biographyby William McBrienISBN 0679727922 (0-679-72792-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Collected Poemsby Constantine Cavafy, Georgios P. Savvides, Philip Sherrard, Edmund KeeleyISBN 0691013209 (0-691-01320-9)
Hardcover, Princeton University Press
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The Collected Poems of Langston Hughesby Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad, David RoesselISBN 0679764089 (0-679-76408-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes'Book summary:"The ultimate book for both the dabbler and serious scholar--. [Hughes] is sumptuous and sharp, playful and sparse, grounded in an earthy music--. This book is a glorious revelation."--Boston Globe
Spanning five decades and comprising 868 poems (nearly 300 of which have never before appeared in book form), this magnificent volume is the definitive sampling of a writer who has been called the poet laureate of African America--and perhaps our greatest popular poet since Walt Whitman. Here, for the first time, are all the poems that Langston Hughes published during his lifetime, arranged in the general order in which he wrote them and annotated by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel.
Alongside such famous works as "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and Montage of a Dream Deferred, The Collected Poems includes the author's lesser-known verse for children; topical poems distributed through the Associated Negro Press; and poems such as "Goodbye Christ" that were once suppressed. Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, the result is a treasure of a book, the essential collection of a poet whose words have entered our common language.
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The Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafyby Constantine Cavafy, Rae DalvenISBN 0701200278 (0-7012-0027-8)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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Deep Romantic Chasm: Diaries, 1979-1981by James Lees-Milne, Michael BlochISBN 0719562112 (0-7195-6211-2)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Farewell Symphonyby Edmund WhiteISBN 0679754768 (0-679-75476-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Folding Starby Alan HollinghurstISBN 0679436057 (0-679-43605-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Folding Star'Book summary:Obsessed with one of his pupils, teacher Edward Manners becomes embroiled in affairs with two other men, but only after discovering the life and work of Symbolist painter Edgard Orst does he come to understand the implications of obsession. 25,000 first printing. [via]
Funny Boyby Shyam SelvaduraiISBN 0688145957 (0-688-14595-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Giovanni's Roomby James BaldwinISBN 0679642196 (0-679-64219-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Giovanni's Room'Book summary:Baldwin's haunting and controversial second novel is his most sustained treatment of sexuality, and a classic of gay literature. In a 1950s Paris swarming with expatriates and characterized by dangerous liaisons and hidden violence, an American finds himself unable to repress his impulses, despite his determination to live the conventional life he envisions for himself After meeting and proposing to a young woman, he falls into a lengthy affair with an Italian bartender and is confounded and tortured by his sexual identity as he oscillates between the two.
Examining the mystery of love and passion in an intensely imagined narrative, Baldwin creates a moving and complex story of death and desire that is revelatory in its insight.
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Gone Tomorrowby Gary IndianaISBN 0679418881 (0-679-41888-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Greek Homosexualityby Kenneth James DoverISBN 0715611119 (0-7156-1111-9)
Hardcover, Duckworth
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Hard Loveby Ellen WittlingerISBN 068984154X (0-689-84154-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Merchandise &
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hard Love'Book summary:John Galardi is a loner, unable to express his feelings except in the pages of his zine, "Bananafish." He finds inspiration in another zine, "Escape Velocity," created by Marisol Guzman, a self-proclaimed "rich spoiled lesbian private-school gifted-and-talented writer virgin." Her sharp observations make John laugh out loud and he decides he must meet this witty author. By planting himself in Tower Records the day she drops off the latest issue, John manages to arrange a coffee date that extends over several Saturday mornings. They discuss everything from John's inability to feel and his parent's divorce to Marisol's problems with her suffocating adoptive parents. When Marisol casually tells John that she likes him, he is flabbergasted: "Honest to God a shiver ran through my body... Nobody ever said that they liked me. Ever. Not even [my friend] Brian, who probably actually doesn't." After a disastrous "just friends" junior prom date and a weekend zine conference spent together, John realizes that his feelings for Marisol are more than platonic. And Marisol, who is exploring her identity as a young lesbian, has no idea how to let John down gently without losing her new best friend.
Like Barbara Wersba's Whistle Me Home, Hard Love tackles the delicate issue of unrequited love between a straight and gay teen. But what sets this novel apart from similarly themed books is Wittlinger's choice to present the story from John's straight male point of view. Funny and poignant first-person narration will engender empathy for John as he attempts to connect with his emotionally distant parents and an understanding of how his need for their affection has manifested itself in romantic feelings for a girl he knows is unavailable to him. Hard Love is a thoughtful and on-target addition to the growing canon of gay and lesbian coming-of-age stories. (Ages 12 and older) --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunterby Carson McCullersISBN 0679424741 (0-679-42474-1)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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Hello Darling, Are You Working?by Rupert Everett, Frances Crichton StuartISBN 0688117864 (0-688-11786-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Hide and Seek Filesby Caeia MarchISBN 0704340968 (0-7043-4096-8)
Hardcover, Women's Press
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How Long Has This Been Going On?by Ethan MorddenISBN 0679415297 (0-679-41529-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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How to Become a Virginby Quentin CrispISBN 0715615777 (0-7156-1577-7)
Hardcover, Focus Pub R Pullins & Co
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Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italyby Judith C. BrownISBN 0735104328 (0-7351-0432-8)
Hardcover, Xlibris Corp
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Knowing When to Stop: A Memoirby Ned RoremISBN 0684804409 (0-684-80440-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Lives of Michel Foucaultby David MaceyISBN 0679757929 (0-679-75792-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Lord Berners : The Last Eccentricby Mark AmoryISBN 0712665781 (0-7126-6578-1)
Softcover, Random House
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Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survivalby Andrew SullivanISBN 0679773150 (0-679-77315-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Making History : A Novelby Stephen FryISBN 0679459553 (0-679-45955-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Making History : A Novel'Book summary:Those of us who have already discovered Stephen Fry know him as the brilliant British comedian behind TV series such as Jeeves & Wooster and Blackadder, and the author of two enormously funny novels, The Liar and The Hippopotamus. But his new film (in which he plays Oscar Wilde) and his new novel (this one) represent a somewhat alarming departure from his previous work: They're more serious. Though humor is still an essential ingredient of both, Fry's fans are finally getting to witness the emotional depth that this brilliant polymath usually keeps hidden.
In Making History, Fry has bitten off a rather meaty chunk by tackling an at first deceptively simple premise: What if Hitler had never been born? An unquestionable improvement, one would reason--and so an earnest history grad student and an aging German physicist idealistically undertake to bring this about by preventing Adolf's conception. And with their success is launched a brave new world that is in some ways better than ours--but in most ways even worse. Fry's experiment in history makes for his most ambitious novel yet, and his most affecting. His first book to be set mostly in America, it is a thriller with a funny streak, a futuristic fantasy based on one of mankind's darkest realities. It is, in every sense, a story of our times. [via]More editions of Making History : A Novel:
The Man Without a Faceby Isabelle HollandISBN 0694056111 (0-694-05611-1)
Softcover, Harper & Row
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Mauriceby E. M. ForsterISBN 0713156007 (0-7131-5600-7)
Hardcover, Edward Arnold
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maurice'Book summary:A new edition of this novel, which although written in 1914, was not published until after the author's death in 1970 because of its homosexual content. It tells the story of a young man at Cambridge, who falls in love with another man who betrays him by turning to women. But then he meets someone else and finds happiness with him. [via]
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Mr. Norris Changes Trains ; And, Goodbye to Berlinby Christopher IsherwoodISBN 0701129476 (0-7011-2947-6)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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Mrs Dallowayby Virginia WoolfISBN 0679420428 (0-679-42042-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mrs Dalloway'Book summary:As Clarissa Dalloway walks through London on a fine June morning, a sky-writing plane captures her attention. Crowds stare upwards to decipher the message while the plane turns and loops, leaving off one letter, picking up another. Like the airplane's swooping path, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway follows Clarissa and those whose lives brush hers--from Peter Walsh, whom she spurned years ago, to her daughter Elizabeth, the girl's angry teacher, Doris Kilman, and war-shocked Septimus Warren Smith, who is sinking into madness.
As Mrs. Dalloway prepares for the party she is giving that evening, a series of events intrudes on her composure. Her husband is invited, without her, to lunch with Lady Bruton (who, Clarissa notes anxiously, gives the most amusing luncheons). Meanwhile, Peter Walsh appears, recently from India, to criticize and confide in her. His sudden arrival evokes memories of a distant past, the choices she made then, and her wistful friendship with Sally Seton.
Woolf then explores the relationships between women and men, and between women, as Clarissa muses, "It was something central which permeated; something warm which broke up surfaces and rippled the cold contact of man and woman, or of women together.... Her relation in the old days with Sally Seton. Had not that, after all, been love?" While Clarissa is transported to past afternoons with Sally, and as she sits mending her green dress, Warren Smith catapults desperately into his delusions. Although his troubles form a tangent to Clarissa's web, they undeniably touch it, and the strands connecting all these characters draw tighter as evening deepens. As she immerses us in each inner life, Virginia Woolf offers exquisite, painful images of the past bleeding into the present, of desire overwhelmed by society's demands. --Joannie Kervran Stangeland [via]
The Naked Civil Servantby Quentin CrispISBN 0715611879 (0-7156-1187-9)
Hardcover, Duckworth
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The Nature of Alexanderby Renault, Mary, PseudISBN 0713909366 (0-7139-0936-6)
Hardcover, Allen Lane
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Nightwoodby Djuna Barnes, Dorothy AllisonISBN 067964024X (0-679-64024-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nightwood'Book summary:Nightwood is not only a classic of lesbian literature, but was also acknowledged by no less than T. S. Eliot as one of the great novels of the 20th century. Eliot admired Djuna Barnes' rich, evocative language. Lesbian readers will admire the exquisite craftsmanship and Barnes' penetrating insights into obsessive passion. Barnes told a friend that Nightwood was written with her own blood "while it was still running." That flowing wound was the breakup of an eight-year relationship with the lesbian love of her life. [via]
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Noel Cowardby Philip HoareISBN 0684809370 (0-684-80937-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Normal : Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitudeby Amy BloomISBN 067945652X (0-679-45652-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Normal : Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude'Book summary:Amy Bloom has won a devoted readership and wide critical acclaim for fiction of rare humor, insight, grace, and eloquence, and the same qualities distinguish Normal, her first full-length work of nonfiction. In Normal, the National Book Critics Circle Award and National Book Award finalist explores sex and gender through portraits of people who are widely considered not normal.
A great many people, sick of news from the margins, worn out by the sand shifting beneath their assumptions, like to imagine Nature as a sweet, simple voice: tulips in spring, Vermonts leaves falling in autumn, Bloom writes. Nature is more like Aretha Franklin: vast, magnificent, capricious, occasionally hilarious, and infinitely varied.
Bloom takes us on a provocative, intimate journey into the lives of people who reveal, or announce, that their gender is variegated rather than monochromatic female-to-male transsexuals, heterosexual crossdressers, and the intersexed. We meet Lyle Monelle and his mother, Jessie, who recognized early on that her little girl was in fact a boy and used her life savings to help Lyle make the transgender transition. On a Carnival cruise with a group of crossdressers and their spouses, we meet Peggy Rudd and her husband, Melanie, who devote themselves to the cause of ordinary heterosexual men with an additional feminine dimension. And we meet Hale Hawbecker, a regular, middle-of-the-road, white-bread guy with a wife, kids, and a medical condition, the standard treatment for which would have changed his life and his gender.
Bloom shows the essential humanity in this infinite variety, allowing us to appreciate these people as they really areboth like and unlike everyone elseand inviting us to see into these particular worlds and back out to the larger one we all share. Casting light into the dusty corners of our assumptions about sex, gender, and identity, about what it means to be male or female, Bloom reveals new facets to ideas about happiness, personality, and character, even as she brilliantly illumines the very concept of normal. [via]More editions of Normal : Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude:
Now It's Time to Say Goodbye: A Novelby Dale PeckISBN 0688168418 (0-688-16841-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Open Secret: Gay Hollywood, 1928-2000by David EhrensteinISBN 0688175856 (0-688-17585-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Orlando: A Biographyby Virginia WoolfISBN 070120995X (0-7012-0995-X)
Hardcover, Hogarth Press
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Out for Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in Americaby Dudley Clendinen, Adam NagourneyISBN 0684867435 (0-684-86743-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Presentby Neil MillerISBN 0679749888 (0-679-74988-8)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar WildeISBN 0679600019 (0-679-60001-9)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'Book summary:A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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Platon's Republicby PlatonISBN 071484408X (0-7148-4408-X)
Hardcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Platon's Republic'Book summary:A collection of unique portraits by British born, New York based, fashion photographer Platon, which includes over 120 photographs constituting a unique and dynamic cross-section through the cult of fame and power. Platon's subjects are all leaders in their field and include Al Pacino, Bill Clinton, Vivienne Westwood, Leonard Cohen and David Beckham. A collection of unique portraits by British born, New York based, fashion photographer Platon. Over 120 photographs have been selected from an enormous range of powerful images taken over the last decade and together they constitute a unique and dynamic cross-section through the cult of fame and power. Platon's Republic is a window into today's media-led culture that bombards, and sometimes overwhelms, us with images of world-wide importance juxtaposed with frivolity. Platon's Republic replicates the same intense and sometimes surreal experience with portraits of Al Pacino, Bill Clinton, Vivienne Westwood, Leonard Cohen as well as more documentary photographs of Jesse Jackson and Bianca Jagger demonstrating against the death penalty and football supporters. Granted extraordinary access to some of the west's most powerful people, Platon's subjects are all leaders in their field. Whether they are from the TV industry, politicians, actors, fashion designers, writers or musicians, they all wield enormous influence within their arena. Platons' portraits are graphic and intimate, but the unusual angles and revealing expressions are his hallmark. [via]
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Prince Eddy: And the Homosexual Underworldby Eddy AronsonISBN 0719552788 (0-7195-5278-8)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Queen's Throat : Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desireby Wayne KoestenbaumISBN 0679749853 (0-679-74985-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Queer in America : Sex, the Media, and the Closets of Powerby Michelangelo SignorileISBN 067941309X (0-679-41309-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Question of Equality: Lesbian and Gay Politics in America Since Stonewallby David DeitcherISBN 0684800306 (0-684-80030-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Rainbow Boysby Alex SanchezISBN 0689857705 (0-689-85770-5)
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Rainbow Highby Alex SanchezISBN 0689854781 (0-689-85478-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rainbow High'Book summary:NELSON GLASSMAN may have been exposed to the HIV virus and is terrified of testing positive...but what if being positive is the only way to keep the guy of his dreams?
KYLE MEEKS finally has the guy of his dreams and is ready to do anything to stay by his side...but will "anything" include sabotaging his own future?
JASON CARRILLO knows he has to face his future and is prepared to face it out and gay...but is he prepared to let go of the dream that has sustained him all of his life?
As their high school days draw to a close and these three friends move toward one of life's most defining crossroads, each will be compelled to choose his own direction -- and prepare for the consequences.
Bold new voice Alex Sanchez continues the story begun in his critically acclaimed debut "Rainbow Boys" with this captivating and straightforward depiction of living, loving, and losing that goes straight to the heart of what it means to be young and gay.
Remembrance of Things Pastby Marcel ProustISBN 0701124776 (0-7011-2477-6)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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The Republicby PlatoISBN 0679733876 (0-679-73387-6)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Republic'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Toward the end of the astonishing period of Athenian creativity that furnished Western civilization with the greater part of its intellectual, artistic, and political wealth, Plato wrote The Republic, his discussion of the nature and meaning of justice and of the ideal state and its ruler. All subsequent European thinking about these subjects owes its character, directly or indirectly, to this most famous (and most accessible) of the Platonic dialogues. Although he describes a society that looks to some like the ideal human community and to others like a totalitarian nightmare, in the course of his description Plato raises enduringly relevant questions about politics, art, education, and the general conduct of life.Translated by A. D. Lindsay [via]
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Same Sex Marriage : Pro and Conby Andrew SullivanISBN 0679776370 (0-679-77637-0)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Same Sex Marriage : Pro and Con'Book summary:At the end of Virtually Normal, Andrew Sullivan called for the legalization of gay and lesbian marriages as a recognition of an individual's right to enter into a committed relationship with the person he or she loves. Same-Sex Marriage: Pro and Con is, as the title suggests, a collection of arguments for and against such unions. Sullivan provides little commentary, allowing the various authors gathered here to speak for themselves. No matter which side one supports on this issue, this anthology will enable both an intellectual support of one's own beliefs and a better, fuller understanding of the contrary position. [via]
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Season in Hell, And, the Illuminationsby Wyatt Alexander Mason, Jean Nicolas Arthur RimbaudISBN 0679643273 (0-679-64327-3)
Softcover, Modern Library
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Sexing the Cherryby Jeanette WintersonISBN 0679733167 (0-679-73316-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinsonby Camille PagliaISBN 0679735798 (0-679-73579-8)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Skinned Alive: Storiesby Edmund WhiteISBN 067975475X (0-679-75475-X)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Skinned Alive : Stories'Book summary:The eight stories in this erotic and heartbreaking collection are barometers of difference. They measure the distance between an American expatriate and the Frenchman who tutors him in table manners and rough sex; the gulf between a man dying of AIDS and his uncomprehending relatives.
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Sodomy in Early Modern Europeby Thomas BetteridgeISBN 0719061156 (0-7190-6115-6)
Softcover, Manchester Univ Pr
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Picasso, Provence, and Douglas Cooperby John RichardsonISBN 0712667083 (0-7126-6708-3)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Spellby Alan HollinghurstISBN 0701165197 (0-7011-6519-7)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Spell'Book summary:Alan Hollinghurst writes like a dream about the nightmare of unequal affection. In his third novel, The Spell, four men dance around one another, their emotions and actions ranging from casual cruelty to anxiety to adoration. Hollinghurst's painful but smiling roundelay alternates between Dorset--where 40ish architect Robin shares a house with the impossibly self-involved Justin--and London. When Justin's ex, Alex, arrives for a weekend in the country, the atmosphere is instantly rich with jealousy and power plays. And after the trio is joined by a younger gay man, Danny--who turns out to be Robin's son--the attractions and duplicities multiply exponentially. Alex, for instance, soon admits to Danny, "I've got a ruinous taste for takers," and they (and we) are off and running.
As ever, Hollinghurst's prose is musical and sensual but also deeply witty. Even the birds in this novel modulate their song from somnolent calls to outright chuckles--echoing the pleasures and absurdities of the humans they circle. And the author's feel for the easy intimacies and brutalities that his characters exchange is unmatched. As Justin (clad only in a tanga) escorts Alex around the cottage, he points out some vases: "These pots, darling, were made by potters of the greatest probity." Hollinghurst's descriptions are marvelous, whether of landscape or human frailty. After leaving a rather unrelaxed restaurant with Alex, "Danny recovered his air of bossiness and mystery, like a prefect in the school of pleasure." And when the two obtain some Ecstasy and hit one of Danny's haunts--a brilliantly realized club--the author reveals the rapture and idiocy in each moment:
The boys glistened and pawed at the ground. They looked like members of some dodgy brainwashing cult.... Alex saw that what he most wanted was happening and groped marvellingly between the different kinds of happiness, the chemicals and the sex. It seemed that happening and happiness were the same, he must remember that, to tell everyone.
But as amusing as Alan Hollinghurst is, his forte is loss. Again and again he reminds us that solitary sadness is a wink away from comedy and sexual possession. --Kerry Fried [via]More editions of The Spell:
Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friednship and Love Between Women from the Renaissanceby L. FadermanISBN 0704339773 (0-7043-3977-3)
Softcover, Womens Pr Ltd
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Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Presentby Lillian FadermanISBN 0688133304 (0-688-13330-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Surpassing the Love of Men : Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present'Book summary:First published in 1981, this feminist classic began modestly as an academic essay on Emily Dickinson's love poems and letters to her future sister-in-law, Sue Gilbert. In her original introduction, Faderman recalled her surprise at finding these records of an erotic attachment between women that showed no evidence of guilt, anxiety, or the need for secrecy. Yet 60 or 70 years after they were written, the original letters had been bowdlerized by a niece of Dickinson's, who clearly found them too shocking for publication. Why, Faderman wondered, was passionate love between women, once almost universally applauded in the Western world, now almost universally condemned? She learned that the love between Dickinson and Gilbert had many precedents, and that it was only in the late 19th century that medical literature and antifeminism combined to rank women who loved women "somewhere," as she puts it bluntly, "between necrophiliacs and those who had sex with chickens." For this new edition, Faderman explains that she has resisted the urge to update her text, hoping that her exploration of romantic friendship, from French libertine literature through the dawn of feminism through the lesbian panic of the 1920s will still serve as "solace and ammunition" for those hoping to find "a usable past." --Regina Marler [via]
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Territories of Desire in Queer Culture: Refiguring Contemporary Boundariesby Linda Anderson, David AldersonISBN 0719057612 (0-7190-5761-2)
Softcover, Manchester Univ Pr
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Tom Driberg: His Life and Indiscretionsby Francis WheenISBN 0701131438 (0-7011-3143-8)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Vanitasby Joseph OlshanISBN 0684833964 (0-684-83396-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Virtually Normal: An Argument about Homosexualityby Andrew SullivanISBN 0679746145 (0-679-74614-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-Westby Victoria GlendinningISBN 0688041116 (0-688-04111-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Warren Cupby Dyfri WilliamsISBN 0714122602 (0-7141-2260-2)
Softcover, British Museum Pubns Ltd
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The Waters of Thirstby Adam Mars-JonesISBN 0679759603 (0-679-75960-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The World's Great ClassicsISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
Hardcover, Xs Books
Find This BookBook summary:Odyssey, The: The World's Great Classics, by Homer; tr. by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang [via]
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Written on the Bodyby Jeanette WintersonISBN 0679744479 (0-679-74447-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Written on the Body'Book summary:The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman. "At once a love story and a philosophical meditation."--New York Times Book Review. [via]
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