Edmund White
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"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 and from each other. As the decades unfold, Yvonne will ascend the highest ranks of Parisian society as Yvette gives herself to a lifetime of worship and service in the streets...
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Español
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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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English
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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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Español
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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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English
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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...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
225 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Literary icon Edmund White made his name through his writing but remembers his life through the books he has read. For White, each momentous occasion came with a book to match: Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, which opened up the seemingly closed world of homosexuality while he was at boarding school in Michigan; the Ezra Pound poems adored by a lover he followed to New York; the biography of Stephen Crane that inspired one of White's novels....
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 22 cm
Language
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...
12) The first men
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Series
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
c1973
Physical Desc
157 p. : ill. (part col.) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
13) Life Drawing
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English
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Born in Iowa to the sounds of Bob and Bing Crosby and the Dorsey brothers, Mickey grows up to the comforting images of his living room TV and the reassuring ruts of his parents' life. During the restless summer of his senior year in high school, drifting away from the girlfriend he could never quite love, Mickey spends a night with another boy, and his world will never be the same. On a barge floating down the Mississippi, he falls in love with James,...
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
xix, 374 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"In time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump inauguration and the Women's March, this ... anthology features original short stories from thirty bestselling and award-winning authors--including Alice Walker, Richard Russo, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Cunningham, Mary Higgins Clark, and Lee Child"--Provided by publisher.