Edmund White
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A groundbreaking novel about coming out from one of America's preeminent gay writers. Critically lauded upon its initial publication in 1982 for its pioneering depiction of homosexuality, A Boy's Own Story is a moving tale about coming-of-age in midcentury America. With searing clarity and unabashed wit, Edmund White's unnamed protagonist yearns for what he knows to be shameful. He navigates an uneasy relationship with his father, confounds first...
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In a damp, old Sussex castle, American literary phenomenon Stephen Crane lies on his deathbed, wasting away from tuberculosis at the age of twenty-eight. The world-famous author has retreated to England with his wife, Cora, in part to avoid gossip about her ignominious past as the proprietress of an infamous Florida bordello, the Hotel de Dream. In the midst of gathering tragedy, Crane begins dictating what will surely be his final work: a strange
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Bloomsbury Publishing
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2020.
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English
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"From Edmund White, a bold and sweeping new novel that traces the extraordinary fates of twin sisters, one destined for Parisian nobility and the other for Catholic sainthood. Yvette and Yvonne Crawford are twin sisters, born on a humble patch of East Texas prairie but bound for far grander fates. Just as an untold fortune of oil lies beneath their daddy's land, both girls harbor their own secrets and dreams-ones that will carry them far from Texas...
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Historia de un chico es una obra maestra, una novela de iniciación y un clásico de la literatura gay. En el conservador Medio Oeste de los Estados Unidos, en la segunda posguerra, el narrador, un joven de precoz curiosidad intelectual, sensibilidad artística y anhelo romántico se enfrentará a los ritos propios del paso de la infancia a la adolescencia, y al descubrimiento de su propia homosexualidad, de la que buscará "curarse".
Historia de...
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En tiempos en que se documenta a lo vivo hasta el último resquicio de las vidas privadas y de los rituales colectivos de ese infierno que son los otros, un libro como Estados del deseo nos recuerda que hasta hace no mucho las sociedades contemporáneas convivíamos con un bien en vías de extinción: el misterio. Vilipendiada, demonizada y perseguida, la cultura gay constituía (aun en los Estados Unidos) una terra incognita que merecía, y exigía,...
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"Andrea Bajani's "beautiful, original, and deeply moving" (Michael Cunningham) novel, which Jhumpa Lahiri asserts "accumulates with the quiet urgency of a snowstorm." A prismatic novel that records the indelible marks a mother leaves on her son after she abandons their home in Italy for a business she's building in Romania. Lorenzo, just a young boy when his mother leaves, recalls the incisive fragments of their life - when they would playfully wrestle...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
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2021.
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English
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A married couple who originally agreed to not speak of their past failed relationships alternate reading from the memoirs they've written about their lives, in a novel that explores polyamory, bisexuality, aging, and love.
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Bloomsbury Publishing
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[2023]
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English
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"Aldwych West, an eighty-year-old modern-day aristocrat living alone in his Manhattan townhouse, is used to having what he wants. And when he sets eyes on August Dupond, a strong, stunningly beautiful soloist in the New York City Ballet, he decides he must have him. Soon they strike up a closeness that falls between the blurry lines of friendship, sponsorship, and love, and August moves in with Aldwych. But eventually August starts bringing home other...