The Penguin Book of Gay Short StoriesDavid Leavitt, Mark Lindsey Mitchell These thirty-nine stories chronicle the gay experience over the course of the last century, beginning with the unarticulated longing of two boys swimming in D.H. Lawrence's "A Poem of Friendship" and ending with the explicit sexual interaction of two boys in a bathtub in A.M. Homes's "The Whiz Kids." In between there is every imaginable kind of gay story written by every imaginable kind of writer--gay and straight, male and female--all illuminating the common ground of the gay male experience and its astonishing diversity. "The book is like a long enjoyable party, at which the celebrated rub elbows with the neglected."--Times Literary Supplement |
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Page 92
... thought that from her point of view it would have been better to let sleeping dogs lie . She obviously thought that deep down inside I wanted to see him in spite of the way I'd carried on about him and the Algerian and sworn I never ...
... thought that from her point of view it would have been better to let sleeping dogs lie . She obviously thought that deep down inside I wanted to see him in spite of the way I'd carried on about him and the Algerian and sworn I never ...
Page 277
... thought ; or such a universal one that it makes one talk like a cheap magazine . What , indeed , was the matter with me ? " I shouldn't have thought you'd know much about those , " I said . " We don't read them at the press , certainly ...
... thought ; or such a universal one that it makes one talk like a cheap magazine . What , indeed , was the matter with me ? " I shouldn't have thought you'd know much about those , " I said . " We don't read them at the press , certainly ...
Page 593
... thought I saw him just ahead , or behind , turning around suddenly . His records still played , muted through the ... thought about that trunk full of magazines , Ray's whole life , and regretted not having saved it , or given it to ...
... thought I saw him just ahead , or behind , turning around suddenly . His records still played , muted through the ... thought about that trunk full of magazines , Ray's whole life , and regretted not having saved it , or given it to ...
Contents
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD | 24 |
NOËL COWARD | 72 |
J R ACKERLEY | 109 |
Copyright | |
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