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Against the Grain: (A Reboursby Joris Karl HuysmansISBN 0486221903 (0-486-22190-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Against the Grain: (A Rebours'Book summary:Because of his extreme sensitivity to the absurd and grotesque in human affairs, the protagonist of this masterpiece of decadence has estranged himself from society and savors the most bizarre aspects of human existence in his quest for novelty. This landmark novel is filled with weird images and biting wit. Introduction by Havelock Ellis.[via]More editions of Against the Grain: (A Rebours:
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The Ambassadorsby Henry James, Sandra KempISBN 0460871609 (0-460-87160-9)
Softcover, Everyman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ambassadors'Book summary:The Ambassadors, which Henry James considered his best work, is the most exquisite refinement of his favorite theme: the collision of American innocence with European experience. This time, James recounts the continental journey of Louis Lambert Strether--a fiftysomething man of the world who has been dispatched abroad by a rich widow, Mrs. Newsome. His mission: to save her son Chadwick from the clutches of a wicked (i.e., European) woman, and to convince the prodigal to return to Woollett, Massachusetts. Instead, this all-American envoy finds Europe growing on him. Strether also becomes involved in a very Jamesian "relation" with the fascinating Miss Maria Gostrey, a fellow American and informal Sacajawea to her compatriots. Clearly Paris has "improved" Chad beyond recognition, and convincing him to return to the U.S. is going to be a very, very hard sell. Suspense, of course, is hardly James's stock-in-trade. But there is no more meticulous mapper of tone and atmosphere, nuance and implication. His hyper-refined characters are at their best in dialogue, particularly when they're exchanging morsels of gossip. Astute, funny, and relentlessly intelligent, James amply fulfills his own description of the novelist as a person upon whom nothing is lost. --Rhian Ellis [via]
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The American Dream: And the Zoo Storyby Edward AlbeeISBN 0452278899 (0-452-27889-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American Dream: And the Zoo Story'Book summary:The American Dream: The story of one of America's most dysfunctional families, it is a ferocious, uproarious attack on the substitution of artifical values for the real values- a startling tale of murder and morality that rocks middle-class ethics to its complacent foundations. The Zoo Story: A harrowing depiction of a young man alienated from the human race- a searing story of loneliness and the desperate need for recognition that builds to a violent, shattering climax. Together, these plays show men and women at their most hilarious, heartbreaking, and above all, human. [via]
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Andy Warhol's Diariesby HackettISBN 0517069164 (0-517-06916-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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The Apartheid of Sex : A Manifesto on the Freedom of Genderby Martine A. RothblattISBN 051759997X (0-517-59997-X)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Bastard Out of Carolinaby Dorothy AllisonISBN 0452287057 (0-452-28705-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bastard Out of Carolina'Book summary:[via]Greenville County, South Carolina, a wild, lush place, is home to the Boatwright familyrough-hewn men who drink hard and shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who marry young and age all too quickly. At the heart of this astonishing novel is Ruth Anne Boatwright, known simply as Bone, a South Carolina bastard with an annotated birth certificate to tell the tale. Observing everything with the mercilessly keen eye of a child, Bone finds herself caught in a family triangle that will test the loyalty of her mother, Anney. Her stepfather, Daddy Glen, calls Bone "cold as death, mean as a snake, and twice as twisty," yet Anney needs Glen. At first gentle with Bone, Daddy Glen becomes steadily colder and more furiousuntil their final, harrowing encounter, from which there can be no turning back.More editions of Bastard Out of Carolina:
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Beauty's Punishmentby Anne Rice, A.N. RoquelaureISBN 0452281431 (0-452-28143-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beauty's Punishment'Book summary:The delicious and erotically charged sequel to The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty[via]
This sequel to The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, the first of Anne Rice's (writing as A.N. Roquelaure) elegantly written volumes of erotica, continues her explicit, teasing exploration of the psychology of human desire. Now Beauty, having indulged in a secret and forbidden infatuation with the rebellious slave Prince Tristan, is sent away from the Satyricon-like world of the Castle. Sold at auction, she will soon experience the tantalizing punishments of "the village," as her education in love, cruelty, dominance, submission, and tenderness is turned over to the brazenly handsome Captain of the Guard. And once again Rice's fabulous tale of pleasure and pain dares to explore the most primal and well-hidden desires of the human heart. Preceding the visceral eroticism of E.L. James Fifty Shades of Grey and Sylvia Day's Bared to You, and even more haunting than her own novel Belinda, this second installment is not to be missed.More editions of Beauty's Punishment:
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Beggar's Operaby John GayISBN 0486408884 (0-486-40888-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beggar's Opera'Book summary:[via]A receiver of stolen goods informs on his chief supplier, setting in motion an increasingly absurd turn of events. In addition to its burlesque of the then-current vogue for Italian operatic styles, this satirical 1728 play ridicules a broad spectrum of political figures and social conventions. Influential prototype for Threepenny Opera.More editions of Beggar's Opera:
Beggars Opera and Other Eighteenth Century Playsby J. HampdenISBN 0460018183 (0-460-01818-3)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Storiesby Herman Melville, A. Robert LeeISBN 0460872052 (0-460-87205-2)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories'Book summary:If Melville had never written "Moby Dick," his place in world literature would be assured by his short tales. "Billy Budd, Sailor, " his last work, is the masterpiece in which he delivers the final summation in his "quarrel with God." It is a brilliant study of the tragic clash between social authority and individual freedom, human justice and abstract good. Melville also explores this theme in "Bartelby the Scrivener, " his famous story about a Wall Street law clerk who takes passive resistance to a comic--and ultimately disastrous--extreme; and in "Benito Cereno, " his dazzling account of oppression and rebellion on a nineteenth-century slave ship. Completing this collection of great tales are the eerie "The Encantados, " the beautiful, romantic "The Piazza, " and Melville's chilling science fiction parable, "The Bell-Tower." [via]
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Bitch Goddessby Robert RodiISBN 0452283108 (0-452-28310-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bitch Goddess'Book summary:In Bitch Goddess, Robert Rodi turns his riotous wit on Hollywood sex and stardom. Told entirely through interviews, e-mails, fan magazine puff pieces, film reviews, shooting scripts, greeting cards, extortion notes, and court depositions, this is a hilarious account of the on-again, off-again career of Viola Chute, the B-grade sex symbol who slept her way to the middle-and slid downward from there.
After making a big comeback on a nighttime soap, Viola decides it's time to pen her memoirs. But when E. Manfred Harry, her ghostwriter, turns up some serious dirt, the bitch goddess fires him. The ever-resourceful Harry turns the book into an unauthorized tell-all biography, and Viola's star once again begins its descent...
Will she be asked back for a second season?
Will she make Celebrity Magazine's "Best-Dressed" list again this year?
Will her agent ever return her calls?
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"Rodi whips action around faster than Julia Child working up a souffle." (The Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel)
"Irrestibly funny!" (Quentin Crisp) [via]More editions of Bitch Goddess:
Body, Remember: A Memoirby Kenny FriesISBN 0452276713 (0-452-27671-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Butterscotch Princeby Richard HallISBN 0515037508 (0-515-03750-8)
Hardcover, Pyramid Books
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A Cannibal in Manhattanby Tama JanowitzISBN 0517566249 (0-517-56624-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Commitment And Healing: Gay Men And the Need for Romantic Loveby Richard A. IsayISBN 0471740497 (0-471-74049-7)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Complete Poemsby Christopher MarloweISBN 0486426742 (0-486-42674-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Complete Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 0517120739 (0-517-12073-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Oscar Wilde'Book summary:An all-encompassing collection of the author's plays, stories, poems, and children's works offers The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Lady Windomere's Fan, and Salome. [via]
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A Delicate Balance: A Playby Edward AlbeeISBN 0452278090 (0-452-27809-0)
Softcover, Plume
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Derek Jarman: A Portraitby Roger Wollen, James Cary ParkesISBN 0500017239 (0-500-01723-9)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Derek Jarman: A Portrait'Book summary:The power of Derek Jarman's visual imagination has touched every one of his projects. In the various roles of painter, stage designer, film-maker and gardener, his intensity forged a compelling view of the world in many different media. However, it was as a painter that he was trained, graduating from the Slade School of Art in the 1960s to almost immediate acclaim, and exhibiting widely both in London and abroad. His career as a film-maker never entirely exposed his importance as an artist. The book studies a selection of Jarman's work in a variety of visual media. The text explores the interconnecting aspects of Jarman's oeuvre, including the relationshp between the painting and the films, the stage designs, the late paintings and the garden - revealing common themes, ideas and influences to provide insight into Jarman's creative mind. [via]
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Derek Jarman's Gardenby Derek Jarman, Howard SooleyISBN 0500016569 (0-500-01656-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Falsettos: "Falsettos"/"March of the Falsettos" and "Falsettoland" and "in Trousers"/Three One-Act Musicalsby William Finn, James LapineISBN 0452270723 (0-452-27072-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Fearful Symmetryby Greg BillsISBN 0452275741 (0-452-27574-1)
Softcover, Plume
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Friends and Lovers: Gay Men Write About the Families They Createby Michael Lowenthal, John PrestonISBN 0452272548 (0-452-27254-8)
Softcover, Plume
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The Gay Criticby Hubert Fitche, Kevin GavinISBN 0472083406 (0-472-08340-6)
Softcover, University of Michigan Press
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The Gay Guy's Guide to Love : The Dos, Don'ts and Definite Maybes of Dating and Matingby Ken HanesISBN 0517887908 (0-517-88790-8)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group
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The Green Carnationby Robert HichensISBN 0486222233 (0-486-22223-3)
Hardcover, Dover Publications
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The Half You Don't Knowby Peter CameronISBN 0452277329 (0-452-27732-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Hollywood Babylonby Kenneth AnglerISBN 0517344084 (0-517-34408-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hollywood Babylon'Book summary:Originally published in Paris, this is a collection of Hollywood's darkest and best kept secrets from the pen of Kenneth Anger, a former child movie actor who grew up to become one of America's leading underground film-makers. [via]
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Home Boyby Jimmy ChesireISBN 0453006647 (0-453-00664-7)
Hardcover, New American Library
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The Importance of Being Earnestby Oscar WildeISBN 0486264785 (0-486-26478-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Importance of Being Earnest'Book summary:Witty and buoyant comedy of manners is brilliantly plotted from its effervescent first act to its hilarious denouement, and filled with some of literature's most famous epigrams. Widely considered Wilde's most perfect work, the play is reprinted here from an authoritative early British edition. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.[via]More editions of The Importance of Being Earnest:
Importance of Being Earnest and Other Writingsby Oscar WildeISBN 0517626411 (0-517-62641-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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The Impressionistby Hari KunzruISBN 0452283973 (0-452-28397-3)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Impressionist'Book summary:The antihero of The Impressionist, Hari Kunzru's daringly ambitious first novel, is half English and half Indian. In the Raj of the 1920s, the racial and social divides are enormous, but Pran Nath is able to bridge them, crossing from one side to another in a series of reinventions of his own personality. He begins as the spoiled child of an Indian lawyer, but circumstances thrust him out of his pampered adolescence into the teeming and dangerous life of the streets. After a bewildering period as one of the pawns in Machiavellian political and sexual scheming in the decadent court of a minor Maharajah, he escapes to Bombay. There he is taken up by a half-demented Scottish missionary and his wife, but Pran Nath prefers to slope off to the city's red-light district whenever he can. During a time of riot and bloodshed, the chance of re-creating himself as an English schoolboy destined for public school and Oxford presents itself, and he takes it. But this is not his final transformation.
In certain ways Kunzru is almost too ambitious. There is so much crammed onto the pages of The Impressionist that some of it, almost inevitably, doesn't work as well as it might. However, as the shapeshifting Pran Nath moves from one identity to another, knockabout farce mixes with satire, social comedy with parody. And beneath the comic exuberance and linguistic invention, there is an intelligent and occasionally moving examination of notions of self, identity, and what it means to belong to a class or society. --Nick Rennison, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Inside Out: Straight Talk from a Gay Jockby Mark TewksburyISBN 0470837357 (0-470-83735-7)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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The Intimacy Dance: A Guide to Long-Term Success in Gay and Lesbian Relationshipsby Betty BerzonISBN 0452277477 (0-452-27747-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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J. M. Barrie & the Lost Boys: The Love Story That Gave Birth to Peter Panby Andrew BirkinISBN 0517538733 (0-517-53873-3)
Hardcover
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J.K. Lasser's Gay Finances in a Straight World: A Comprehensive Financial Planning Handbookby Gregory A. Diggins, Peter M. BerkeryISBN 0471387657 (0-471-38765-7)
Softcover, Macmillan General Reference
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› Find signed collectible books: 'J.K. Lasser's Gay Finances in a Straight World: A Comprehensive Financial Planning Handbook'Book summary:In a system that was not designed for same-sex couples or persons with a same-sex orientation, this book will help homosexuals identify financial planning issues common to society in general, and to the gay community specifically, and teach them to foresee life events likely to affect their financial status, and successfully develop financial strategies that navigate their finances around these events. [via]
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James Joyce : Dubliners, a Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, Chamber Musicby James JoyceISBN 051708239X (0-517-08239-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'James Joyce : Dubliners, a Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, Chamber Music'Book summary:An eclectic volume of works by one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century includes a short story collection, his most famous novel, and an early sequence of poems. [via]
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Kinflicksby Lisa AltherISBN 0452276772 (0-452-27677-2)
Softcover, Plume
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Lavender Cultureby Karla Jay, Allen YoungISBN 0515044628 (0-515-04462-8)
Hardcover, Jove Publications
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Leap Yearby Peter CameronISBN 0452279852 (0-452-27985-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Leatherman's Handbook IIby Larry TownsendISBN 0503099996 (0-503-09999-6)
Softcover, Amcam
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Love! Valour! Compassion! and a Perfect Ganesh: Two Playsby Terrence McNallyISBN 0452279305 (0-452-27930-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Men on Men 5 : Best New Gay Fictionby David BergmanISBN 0452272440 (0-452-27244-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Men on Men 7 Vol. 7 : Best New Gay Fictionby David BergmanISBN 0452277345 (0-452-27734-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Men Who Loved Meby Felice PicanoISBN 0453007007 (0-453-00700-7)
Hardcover, Daedalus Books
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Michelangelo: The Sistine ChapelISBN 0517077647 (0-517-07764-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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The Milkman's on His Wayby Max BygravesISBN 0491022905 (0-491-02290-5)
Hardcover, Allen
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Moise Wld Reason Dby Tennessee WilliamsISBN 0491019351 (0-491-01935-1)
Hardcover, W. H. Allen
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My Antoniaby Willa CatherISBN 0486282406 (0-486-28240-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Antonia'Book summary:It seems almost sacrilege to infringe upon a book as soulful and rich as Willa Cather's My Ántonia by offering comment. First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land ("not a country at all but the material out of which countries are made") comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. He is, at the time of their meeting, newly orphaned and arriving at his grandparents' neighboring farm on the same night her family strikes out to make good in their new country. Jim chooses the opening words of his recollections deliberately: "I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to be an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America," and it seems almost certain that readers of Cather's masterpiece will just as easily pinpoint the first time they heard of Ántonia and her world. It seems equally certain that they, too, will remember that moment as one of great light in an otherwise unremarkable trip through the world.
Ántonia, who, even as a grown woman somewhat downtrodden by circumstance and hard work, "had not lost the fire of life," lies at the center of almost every human condition that Cather's novel effortlessly untangles. She represents immigrant struggles with a foreign land and tongue, the restraints on women of the time (with which Cather was very much concerned), the more general desires for love, family, and companionship, and the great capacity for forbearance that marked the earliest settlers on the frontier.
As if all this humanity weren't enough, Cather paints her descriptions of the vastness of nature--the high, red grass, the road that "ran about like a wild thing," the endless wind on the plains--with strokes so vivid as to make us feel in our bones that we've just come in from a walk on that very terrain ourselves. As the story progresses, Jim goes off to the University in Lincoln to study Latin (later moving on to Harvard and eventually staying put on the East Coast in another neat encompassing of a stage in America's development) and learns Virgil's phrase "Optima dies ... prima fugit" that Cather uses as the novel's epigraph. "The best days are the first to flee"--this could be said equally of childhood and the earliest hours of this country in which the open land, much like My Ántonia, was nothing short of a rhapsody in prairie sky blue. --Melanie Rehak [via]
Obsessed : A Flesh and the Word Collection of Gay Erotic Memoirsby Michael LowenthalISBN 0452279992 (0-452-27999-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Occasions of Poetryby Clive Wilmer, Thom GunnISBN 0472085832 (0-472-08583-2)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Occasions of Poetry'Book summary:"For me the act of writing is an exploration, a reaching out, an act of trusting search for the correct incantation that will return me certain feelings whenever I want them. And of course I have never completely succeeded in finding the correct incantations." --Thom GunnThom Gunn is well-known as a poet, and increasingly as a literary critic. The Occasions of Poetry includes insightful critical pieces on writers ranging from William Carlos Williams and Gary Snyder to Thomas Hardy and Robert Duncan. "The occasion in all cases," writes Gunn, "is the starting point, only, of a poem, but it should be a starting point to which the poet must in some sense stay true." The first loyalty of a writer who is "true to his occasions," he writes, must be to the facts of experience.The book includes five autobiographical essays, which combine to form an engaging account of the author's development as a poet and to chronicle some of the most significant literary currents of recent decades, both in England and America.Thom Gunn, born in England in 1929, has lived in America since 1954. His books include Shelf Life: Essays, Memoirs, and an Interview; The Man with Night Sweats; Collected Poems; and The Passages of Joy. The Occasions of Poetry was originally published by Faber and Faber.[via]More editions of The Occasions of Poetry:
Other Womenby Lisa AltherISBN 0452276780 (0-452-27678-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Pagan Babiesby Greg JohnsonISBN 0452271320 (0-452-27132-0)
Softcover, Plume
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Permanent Partners: Building Gay & Lesbian Relationships That Lastby Betty BerzonISBN 0452286212 (0-452-28621-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Perpetual Motion : The Public and Private Lives of Rudolf Nureyevby Otis StuartISBN 0452275792 (0-452-27579-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Manby James JoyceISBN 0486280500 (0-486-28050-0)
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Pryor Renderingby Gary ReedISBN 0452277973 (0-452-27797-3)
Softcover, Plume
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A Queer Geography : Journeys Toward a Sexual Selfby Frank BrowningISBN 0517598574 (0-517-59857-4)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Rat Bohemiaby Sarah SchulmanISBN 0452271827 (0-452-27182-7)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rat Bohemia'Book summary:Sarah Schulman's Rat Bohemia is a witty, moving and sometimes shocking look at how lesbians and gay men are treated by their biological families. Set in contemporary New York, Schulman's characters--Rita, a rat exterminator who works for the city, Killer, a lesbian bohemian, and David, a gay writer with AIDS--are all trying to figure out how to live in a city that is falling apart and how to make peace with the families who ignore them or treat them badly. Schulman's eye for urban detail and her wicked, ironic sense of humor all contribute to making this a profoundly affecting and deeply disturbing look at lesbian and gay life today. [via]
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The Republicby Plato, Benjamin JowettISBN 0486411214 (0-486-41121-4)
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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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The Republicby John Hall, Plato, Terence IrwinISBN 0460873822 (0-460-87382-2)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Republic'Book summary:A newly designed second edition of the classic translation of Plato's timeless work, "The Republic," by the author of "The Closing of the American Mind." [via]
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The Republic of Platoby Plato, Allan David BloomISBN 0465069347 (0-465-06934-7)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Republic of Plato'Book summary:"What is at stake is far from insignificant: it is how one should live one's life."Plato's The Republic is widely acknowledged as the cornerstone of Western philosophy. Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, it is an inquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation, other questions are raised: What is goodness? What is reality? What is knowledge? The Republic also addresses the purpose of education and the roles of both women and men as "guardians" of the people. With remarkable lucidity and deft use of allegory, Plato arrives at a depiction of a state bound by harmony and ruled by "philosopher kings." [via]
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The Rest of the Earthby William H. HendersonISBN 0452274168 (0-452-27416-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Room With a Viewby Foester. E.M.ISBN 0486284670 (0-486-28467-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Room With a View'Book summary:British social comedy examines a young heroine's struggle against strait-laced Victorian attitudes as she rejects the man her family has encouraged her to marry and chooses, instead, a socially unsuitable fellow she met on holiday in Italy. Classic exploration of passion, human nature and social convention.[via]More editions of Room With a View:
Royal Tastesby Paul VerlaineISBN 051755495X (0-517-55495-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Say Uncleby Eric Shaw QuinnISBN 0452271665 (0-452-27166-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Season in Hell: The Illuminationsby Jean Nicolas Arthur RimbaudISBN 0460879847 (0-460-87984-7)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Season in Hell: The Illuminations'Book summary:Rimbaud's vagrant and dissolute life in Paris and England with fellow poet, Paul Verlaine, which ended with a shooting drama in Brussels, is the stuff of legend and led to Rimbaud's being mythologized and idolized, particularly by the French surrealists. His poetry - visionary, unnerving, idiosyncratic, disorientating - has had a profound influence on modern writing. A Season in Hell (1873) reviews his visionary claims for poetry - his ideal of the poet as seer, through the systematic disordering of the senses, of poetry as part of life and of action. His is an agonized, divided voice, pulled in all directions by instabilities of emotion and belief. Illuminations (pub. 1886), an extended prose poem, is both a series of visual images - landscapes, cityscapes, clowns, circuses, interiors - and of mood pictures, with no one voice or identity. Fragmented, hallucinatory, decentred, the poet, in a series of shifting roles, explores pluralistic notions of the self. [via]
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Second Sonby Robert FerroISBN 0517568152 (0-517-56815-2)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Setting Them Straight : You Can Do Something about Bigotry and Homophobia in Your Lifeby Betty BerzonISBN 0452274214 (0-452-27421-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Sexplorations : Journeys to the Erogenous Frontierby Anka RadakovichISBN 0517701952 (0-517-70195-2)
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Sexual Inversion: A Classic Study of Homosexualityby J. A. SymondsISBN 0517455501 (0-517-45550-1)
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Siddharthaby Hermann Hesse, Stanley AppelbaumISBN 0486404374 (0-486-40437-4)
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The Songs of Bilitisby Pierre LouysISBN 0486256707 (0-486-25670-7)
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Symposium and Phaedrusby Plato, Benjamin JowettISBN 0486277984 (0-486-27798-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Symposium and Phaedrus'Book summary:Two important dialogues offer crucial insights into mystical and aesthetic aspects of Platonic doctrine. Symposium attempts to find the ultimate manifestation of the love that controls the world, leading to mystic union with eternal and supercosmic beauty. Phaedrus discusses the psychology of love, resulting in the concept of the familiar Platonic "forms" as objects of transcendental emotion.[via]More editions of Symposium and Phaedrus:
Tales of the Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberationby Karla JayISBN 0465083668 (0-465-08366-8)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales of the Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberation'Book summary:Lesbian scholar and activist Karla Jay's memoir is rich in sexual detail and family trauma, but may be enjoyed best as a personal history of the turbulent era in which its author came of age. She brings fresh first-hand reports on some of the most pivotal events in the rise of the New Left--from the 1968 student riots at Columbia through the Stonewall riots to the 1970 feminist takeover of the Ladies' Home Journal, which Jay describes as "without a doubt the most successful one-day action taken by the Women's Liberation Movement."
At times nostalgic, at other times clear-eyed and critical, Jay recounts her close involvement with both the Gay Liberation Front and radical feminist groups. In an atmosphere of increasing paranoia (Jay's own phone was tapped, and there is evidence of FBI infiltration of the meetings she attended), she came to terms "with the likelihood that I would spend some part of my life in prison." Enlivened, here and there, by waspish recollections of Rita Mae Brown and other activists, Jay's memoir takes its place beside Jan Clausen's recent Apples and Oranges in tracking the inception of the gay rights movement and the glory days of women's lib. --Regina Marler [via]
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This Is Not a Pipeby Michel FoucaultISBN 0520049160 (0-520-04916-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Tony Kushner in Conversationby Tony Kushner, Robert VorlickyISBN 0472066617 (0-472-06661-7)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Trashby Dorothy AllisonISBN 0452283515 (0-452-28351-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Trial and Death of Socratesby PlatoISBN 0486270661 (0-486-27066-1)
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Trials of Oscar Wildeby H. Montgomery HydeISBN 048620216X (0-486-20216-X)
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Walt Whitman : A Gay Lifeby Gary SchmidgallISBN 0452279208 (0-452-27920-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Why Marriage?: The History Shaping Today's Debate Over Gay Equalityby George ChaunceyISBN 0465009581 (0-465-00958-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Will You Always Love Me?by Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0452274133 (0-452-27413-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Wit and Humor of Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 0486206025 (0-486-20602-5)
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Women in Loveby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0486424588 (0-486-42458-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women in Love'Book summary:A sequel to Lawrence's earlier The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love continues the story of the Brangwen sisters in the coal-mining town of Beldover. Based in part on Lawrence's own stormy marriage to German aristocrat Frieda von Richthofen, the tale is charged with intense feelings and psychological insights.[via]More editions of Women in Love:
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