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Series
New Directions paperbook volume 480
Pub. Date
1979
Description
In this novel by the author of The Berlin Stories, a listless pair of siblings in post-WWI London battle the constraints of society and their mother.
It's the 1920s-the wake of the Great War-and Britain is undergoing a transformation. The middle class is struggling, and the younger generation, feeling constrained by the values that once fueled the empire, is yearning to break free . . .
A new war is brewing in the slums of Kensington, London....
Author
Pub. Date
1997.
Description
A sprawling novel of gay and lesbian life in America, tracing its evolution from the closets of the 1940s to New York City's gay pride parade in 1991 and aids. Featuring dozens of characters and locations, the novel mixes the poignant with the comic. By the author of I've a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Anymore.
4) Full circle
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
History professor Ned Brummel is living happily with his partner of twelve years in small-town Maine, when he receives a phone call from his estranged friend, Jack, telling him that another friend, Andy, is very ill and possibly near death. As Ned boards a plane to Chicago on his way to his friend's bedside, he embarks on another journey into memory, examining the major events and small moments that have shaped his world and his relationships with...
Author
Series
American chronicle (Gore Vidal) volume 3
Description
On a desperate quest to find her father, a missing business tycoon, Ana, a beautiful heiress, ventures into the lush wilderness of the tropical rain forest, accompanied by rugged Brad Eliot, a handsome American working to save the endangered rain forests.
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
A homosexual affair in 1920s England between two 20-year-olds from different backgrounds. One is an aristocrat, the other a lowly store clerk. The affair develops into a roman a trois, both men falling for the aristocrat's manservant. A look at homosexuality in the days when one had to keep it a secret. By the author of Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall
Author
Pub. Date
[1992]
Description
In the 1950's, being gay will get a man fired in America's Foreign Service. In the Vietnam War era, a murder in a Philippines jungle village and a Saigon party of on-leave servicemen, Asian gay boys, and rich colonials force Jim Goodall into a dramatic confrontation with himself.--From publisher description.
11) The temple
Author
Pub. Date
1988.
Description
To the Oxford undergraduates Paul, Simon, and William (characters Spender based closely upon himself, W.H. Auden, and Christopher Isherwood) the Weimar Republic seems a kind of paradise. Simon puts it this way: "Germany is the only place for sex. England's no good." During parties in the Bauhaus salons of Hamburg and pleasure-trips along the Rhine, Paul falls in love with "The Children of the Sun," as young Germans call themselves- until the shadow...
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Series
American chronicle (Gore Vidal) volume 7
Description
"The Golden Age is the concluding volume in Gore Vidal's American empire novels - a unique pageant of the national experience from the United States' entry into World War Two to the end of the Korean War.".
"The Golden Age is a vibrant tapestry of American political and cultural life from 1939 to 1954, when the epochal events of World War Two and the Cold War transformed America, once and for all, for good or ill, from a republic into an empire....