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Alias
Olympia, A Woman's Search for Manet's Notorious Model and Her Own
Desire Eunice
Lipton BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR A
fascinating glimpse into Victorian France through the lens of
Manet's mysterious model. (FRN220,
$13.95) |
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All
About My Mother Pedro Almodovar A vivid and colorful
slice of life about women, friendship and loss from the celebrated
Spanish director Pedro Almodovar. (SPN231,
$29.95) |
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At Swim,
Two Boys Jamie
O'Neill LITERATURE A haunting tale
of love set against the huge backdrop of Irish politics and the
events leading up to the 1916 Easter uprising. (IRE120, $15.00) |
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Audrey
Hepburn's Neck, A Novel Alan Brown LITERATURE An
exquisite short novel about contemporary Japan. (JPN14, $19.95) |
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Before
Night Falls Reinaldo
Arenas Delores Koch BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A deeply moving autobiography, highly critical
of the Castro regime. (CBA37,
$14.00) |
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Berlin
Von Hinten
Bruno Gmunder Publishing GUIDEBOOK A compact, city
guide for gay men. (GER112,
$14.95) |
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Beth
Chatto's Gravel Garden, Drought-Resistant Planting Through the
Year Beth
Chatto Steven Wooster NATURAL HISTORY
Chatto shows fellow green-thumbs how to get
their flowers to bloom in gravelly, sandy soil. (GRD01, $35.00) |
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The
Bostonians Henry James LITERATURE
Henry James' satirical novel of the battle of the sexes set in 1870s
Boston. (BOS13,
$20.00) |
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C.P.
Cavafy, Collected Poems C.P. Cavafy LITERATURE A
collection of poems from one of the most highly regarded poets of
20th century poetry. (GRE87,
$17.95) |
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The
Claudine Novels Colette LITERATURE A series of
short novels about growing up female in turn-of-the-century France.
(FRN125,
$14.00) |
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The
Colossus of Maroussi Henry Miller TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Henry Miller's wartime journey from Athens to
Crete, Corfu and Delphi. (GRE05,
$11.95) |
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The
Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature Byrne Fone ANTHOLOGY A
wide-ranging anthology drawing on diverse sources and genres. (GEN14, $27.50) |
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Complete
Works of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde LITERATURE A
one-volume edition of all the works of Wilde, including stories,
plays, poems, and essays. (IRE35,
$25.00) |
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The
Condor and the Cows, A South American Travel Diary Christopher
Isherwood TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Isherwood's 1947 account of travels through South America. (SAM64, $17.95) |
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Confessions
of a Mask Yukio
Mishima Meredith
Weatherby LITERATURE The story of the
monk who burned the Temple of the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto. (JPN18, $10.95) |
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Cracks
in the Iron Closet, Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia David
Tuller TRAVEL
NARRATIVE An intimate portrait of an emerging
gay subculture in modern Russia. (RUS149,
$15.00) |
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Dirty
Havana Trilogy Pedro Juan
Gutierrez Natasha Wimmer LITERATURE A
novel of contemporary Havana's steamy underbelly, originally
published in Spain -- and banned in the author's native Cuba. (CBA44, $13.95) |
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Equator
Gian Paolo
Barbieri CULTURAL PORTRAIT A sequel
of sorts to fashion-photographer Barbieri's "Madagascar", set among
the people and landscapes of the Seychelles Islands. (SEY14, $29.99) |
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The
Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris Edmund
White LITERATURE An intimate
portrait of Paris and its many pleasures. (FRN259, $16.95) |
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Flaubert
in Egypt Francis
Steegmuller Gustave
Flaubert TRAVEL
NARRATIVE Flaubert's insightful letters and
journal entries from his trip to Egypt in 1849. (EGY12, $14.00) |
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Forbidden
Friendships, Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance
Florence Michael Rocke HISTORY A
scholarly study of relations between men in 15th and 16th century
Florentine society. (ITL443,
$26.00) |
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Funny
Boy Shyam
Selvadurai LITERATURE A prize-winning
novel about family and society in contemporary Sri Lanka. (SRL01, $13.00) |
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Gay and
Lesbian Studies in Art History Whitney Davis ART & ARCHITECTURE
Essays on gender, sexuality and the visual
arts. (GEN20,
$22.95) |
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Gay
Cuban Nation Emilio Bejel LITERATURE An
in-depth, scholarly study of homoeroticism in Cuban liteerature,
film and society. (CBA50,
$19.00) |
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Ghost of
Chance William
Burroughs LITERATURE A novella set in
Madagascar by the late hipster outlaw William Burroughs (MAD29, $14.99) |
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Greek
Homosexuality Kenneth Dover CULTURAL PORTRAIT
The classic history of homosexuality in ancient
Greece. (GRE66,
$20.95) |
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Hadrian,
The Restless Emperor Anthony Birley BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
An up-to-date, scholarly biography. (ITL260, $28.95) |
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Hindoo
Holiday, An Indian Journal J.R. Ackerly TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Ackerly (1896-1967) traipses across India as
the English tutor to a very handsome and wonderfully homosexual
maharajah in this famous account. (IDA115,
$12.95) |
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Homosexual
Desire in Revolutionary Russia Dan Healey CULTURAL PORTRAIT
Changing attitudes toward gay men and women in
urban Russia, before and after 1917. (RUS145,
$40.00) |
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The
House by the Sea, A Journal May Sarton LITERATURE
One of many journals by May Sarton, who moved from New Hampshire to
live alone in a house on the seacoast of Maine. (USE61, $13.95) |
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In
Maremma, Life and a House in Southern Tuscany David
Leavitt Mark Mitchell TRAVEL NARRATIVE
A matter-of-fact, engaging memoir of renovating
an abandoned farmhouse in Italy. (ITL287,
$15.00) |
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In the
Arms of Africa, The Life of Colin M.Turnbull Roy Richard
Drinker BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR A
sympathetic, powerful biography of the author of "The Forest
people." (AFR89,
$17.00) |
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Islamic
Homosexualities: Culture, History and Literature Stephen O.
Murray CULTURAL
PORTRAIT A scholarly overview of homosexuality
in medieval Egypt, Ottoman Turkey and beyond. (ARB26, $21.00) |
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A Journey
in Ladakh Andrew Harvey TRAVEL NARRATIVE
A well-told account of a 1981 journey by a
young English poet in search of ancient Buddhist traditions in
remote Ladakh. (HML15,
$15.00) |
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Kali's
Child, The Mystical and Erotic in the Life and Teachings of
Ramakrishna Jeffrey J. Kripal CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A scholarly analysis of the life and thought of
a 19th century Bengali mystic and modern saint. (IDA112, $19.00) |
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Keep the
River on Your Right Tobias Schneebaum BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
The haunting, lyrical diary of a young man's
experiences in the Peruvian rain forest. (AMZ11,
$12.50) |
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Kiss of
the Spider Woman Manuel Puig LITERATURE
The psychological story of a friendship between two Argentinean
prisoners jailed for their subversive activity: Molina, a
transgendered homosexual and Valentin, a socialist revolutionary.
(ARG28, $13.00) |
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Land's
End, A Walk In Provincetown Michael Cunningham BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A brief, loving portrait of Provincetown, the
town at the very tip of Cape Cod. (USE254,
$16.00) |
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The Last
Avant-Garde, The Making of the New York School of Poets
David
Lehman LITERATURE An enjoyable,
high spirited account of artistic friendship and collaboration.
(NYC75, $16.95) |
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Lorca: A
Dream Life Leslie Stainton BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
This new biography of Federico Garcia Lorca
offers fascinating insight into the life of one of Spain's greatest
writers. (SPN114,
$17.00) |
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Love in
a Different Climate, Men Who Have Sex with Men in India
Jeremy
Seabrook RELIGION Sexual identify
and politics in India. (IDA113,
$25.00) |
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Machos,
Maricones and Gays: Cuba and Homosexuality Ian
Lumsden CULTURAL PORTRAIT A history
and analysis of homosexuality in Cuba, attitudes and issues. (CBA90, $24.95) |
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Mama
Day Gloria
Naylor LITERATURE A glorious novel
celebrating the rich culture, familties, language and traditions of
the barrier islands of Georgia and South Carolina. (USS23, $13.00) |
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Marks of
Identity Juan
Goytisolo Gregory
Rabassa CULTURAL PORTRAIT A
complex, modern novel of Barcelona during the Franco years,
originally published in 1969. (SPN25,
$15.00) |
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Marsden
Hartley, The Biography of an American Artist Townsend
Ludington BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR A
biography of the troubled American modernist painter. (USE185, $21.00) |
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A
Meeting by the River Christopher Isherwood LITERATURE
Two brothers meeting in India, one a bisexual capitalist and the
other a Hindu monk. (IDA114,
$15.95) |
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Memoirs
of Hadrian Marguerite Yourcenar LITERATURE A
beautifully written, powerful novel, which takes the form of letters
by Roman Emperor Hadrian (A.D. 76-138) to Marcus Aurelius. (GRE133, $15.00) |
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Oscar
Wilde Richard
Ellman BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR The
definitive, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Oscar Wilde. (IRE33, $18.95) |
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Paradiso
Josι Lezama
Lima Gregory Rabassa LITERATURE A
baroque masterpiece by Cuba's greatest poet. (CRB128, $14.50) |
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Passions
of the Cut Sleeve, The Male Homosexual Tradition in China
Bret
Hinsch LITERATURE A well-written,
scholarly survey of the traditions of same-sex male love in Chinese
literature. (CHN167,
$18.95) |
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Pictures
and Passions, A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts
James M.
Saslow ART
& ARCHITECTURE A survey of homoerotic
images through the ages. (ART29,
$20.00) |
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The
Poetry of Michelangelo: An Annotated Translation James M.
Saslow LITERATURE A scholarly,
richly informative selection of Michelangelo's writing. (ART30, $21.00) |
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Queer in
Russia: A Story of Sex, Self, and the Other Laurie
Essig CULTURAL
PORTRAIT An engaging, scholarly portrait of
post-perestroika gay culture. (RUS146,
$21.95) |
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Queer
Sites, Gay Urban Histories Since 1600 David Higgs HISTORY A
scholarly history of the gay subculture in London, Amsterdam, Rio de
Janeiro, San Francisco, Paris, Lisbon and Moscow. (WLD32, $29.95) |
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Same-Sex
Unions in Premodern Europe John Boswell HISTORY
Same-sex rituals from ancient times through the Middle Ages. (EUR51, $16.00) |
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Secret
Places, My Life in New York and New Guinea Tobias
Schneebaum BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR A lively
memoir of a spirited adventurous life by the author of "Where
Spirits Dwell" and "Keep the River on Your Right." (NGA20, $24.95) |
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The
Sexual Revolution in Russia, From the Age of the Czars to
Today Igor
Kon HISTORY
A groundbreaking, fascinating history of sex,
sexuality and attitudes in Russia. (RUS147,
$25.50) |
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Singing
from the Well Reinaldo Arenas LITERATURE A
poignant novel of coming of age in rural Cuba. (CBA51, $12.95) |
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The
Story of the Night, a Novel Colm Toibin LITERATURE A
complex, beautifully written tale of intrigue and sexual politics
set in Argentina during the bleak days of dictatorship and Falklands
War. (ARG26,
$13.00) |
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Strawberry
and Chocolate Tomas
Gutiιrrez Juan Carlos
Tabio LITERATURE The heartwarming
story of three neighbors, daily life and intellectual seduction in
contemporary Havana. (CBA68,
$19.99) |
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Sylvia
Beach and the Lost Generation, A History of Literary Paris in the
Twenties and Thirties Noel Riley Fitch BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A vivid portrait of life among intellectual
expatriates in post-WWI Paris. (FRN92,
$19.95) |
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The
Vagabond
Colette LITERATURE YOUNG
ADULTS A colorful portrait of life in
the music halls of early 20th-century Paris. (FRN127, $10.95) |
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Voices
of Modern Greece, Selected Poems Edmund
Keeley Philip Sherrard ANTHOLOGY A
selection of works by modern masters of Greek verse, edited and
translated by two noted scholars. (GRE97,
$19.00) |
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Whale
Rider Witi
Ihimaera LITERATURE A magical,
myhtical novella about a young Maori girl and her relationship with
a whale. (NZL64,
$8.00) |
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Where the
Spirits Dwell Tobias Schneebaum TRAVEL NARRATIVE
A lyrical account of four years among the
headhunters of Asmat. (INS23,
$12.95) |
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Women of
the Left Bank, Paris 1900-1940 Shari Benstock HISTORY A
well-researched and insightful look at important women in the Lost
Generation. (FRN98,
$24.95) |
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Wonderlands,
Good Gay Travel Writing Raphael Kadushin ANTHOLOGY A
diverse collection of modern writers on places, people and mostly
gay travels. (TVL36,
$19.95) |
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