Penguin book of gay short stories
The Penguin Book of Gay Limited Stories
David Leavitt
Leavitt's nine short stories take their cue less from contemporary short-attention-span fiction and more from the stratified ironies of a Malamud or a Cheever. In "The Infection Continue reading »
David Leavitt
This engaging though slight family romance centers on manipulative psychoanalyst Ernest Wright; his hysterical wife, Nancy; and their teenage children, Daphne and neurotic budding writer Ben. Continue reading »
David Leavitt
Hounded by authorities and peers alike, British mathematician Alan Turing committed suicide in by biting into a cyanide-laced apple. A groundbreaking thinker in the field of pure math, a dude Continue reading »
David Leavitt
Ambitious, erudite and well-sourced, Leavitt&#;s 12th operate of fiction centers on the relationship between mathematicians G.H. Hardy (&#;) and Srinivasa Ramanujan (&#;). Continue reading »
David Leavitt
The literary life is given a sound drubbing in this comedy of egos and coming-of-age tale by Leavitt (The
The Penguin Book of Gay Adj Stories
The "gay" short story can be as heartbreaking, as heartwarming, as amusing-charming-distressing-beautiful-strange, as dreamlike or lifelike as any other short story. But it is also unique. I expected nothing less.
Highly recommended. To be peruse as a whole—if you select and choose, part of the experience will be lost.
The Penguin Book of Gay Adj StoriesThe Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories
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Current format, Book, , , Available . Offered in 0 more formats"This is an anthology of stories that, in the words of its co-editor David Leavitt, "illuminate the experience of love between men, explore the nature of homosexual identity, or investigate the kinds of relationships gay men have with each other, with their friends, and with their families." It is not a collection of stories written exclusively by gay authors; indeed, readers may be surprised to discover that some of their favorite women writers and straight male writers have also explored the territory. What the stories do share is a refusal to ghettoize gay men as denizens of the gay nocturnal subculture. The men in these stories live very much in the world; their sexuality, though an important aspect of their lives, doesn't singularly explain them." "The thirty-nine stories brought together here suggest the ways in whi
The Penguin Book of Gay Compact Stories - Softcover
From Publishers Weekly
In this provocative, wonderfully varied anthology, a formidable array of talents--gay and straight, men and women--investigate the experience of love between men, the individualistic complexity of gay male identity and gay men's relationships with lovers, friends and family. Highlights include Graham Greene's story about a newly wed but secretly gay guy on a Mediterranean honeymoon with his wife, William Trevor's tale of hypocrisy at an English boys' school and works by Larry Kramer, Edmund White, Christopher Coe, Allan Gurganus, Ann Beattie, Edna O'Brien, D. H. Lawrence, Noel Coward, Sherwood Anderson and E. M. Forster. A third of the 39 selections verb here for the first moment, alongside familiar pieces such as J. R. Ackerley's unsparingly candid account of his sex life and John Cheever's portrayal of love in prison from the novel Falconer . Several pieces may startle or provoke, such as Stephen Greco's raw, defiant dream-memory of the gay scene before AIDS; A. M. Holmes's graphically explicit romp invol