Author: pdmac
Publisher: Trimble Hollow Press
ISBN: 099156149X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 78

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Author: James Joyce
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775417891
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 395

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is semi-autobiographical, following Joyce's fictional alter-ego through his artistic awakening. The young artist Steven Dedelus begins to rebel against the Irish Catholic dogma of his childhood and discover the great philosophers and artists. He follows his artistic calling to the continent.

Author: Gordon Stoddard
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1839740469
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Go North, Young Man, first published in 1957, is Gordon Stoddard's account of his first four years as a homesteader on Alaska's Kenai peninsula in the 1950s. From building his first cabin (with only the aid of a basic do-it-yourself pamphlet), to growing an abundance of over-sized vegetables, to hunting and foraging and surviving the long winters, Stoddard portrays a down-to-earth look at the simple life he desired and created for himself. Includes 19 pages of photographs and maps.

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Languages : en
Pages : 786

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Author: Jon Redfern
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459716337
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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In 1840, the theatre world in London is shocked by the brutal killing of one of its youngest and most successful entrepreneurs. Inspector Owen Endersby, of the recently formed London Detective Police Force, is called upon to apprehend the culprit before Christmas Eve.

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Languages : en
Pages : 784

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Author: Tanya Jane Richards
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1847286534
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 245

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Tranz-mania is the first book of it's kind - a novel about London's transgender community as it is now, written by an insider. It follows the story of Pam, a newcomer to a club called Tranz-mania, run by Parvula and Tamara -- two transsexuals with different views on what the scene, and transsexuality itself, is all about. In transgender lives, the pace of change is fast. Through coming out, then meeting Parvula and Tamara, Pam confirms her transsexuality and begins to discover her real identity and sexuality, with drastic consequences. Pam's arrival also brings major change for Parvula and Tamara; a new future for all of them takes shape, at Tranz-mania.

Author: Edmund White
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408858959
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 307

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______________ 'One of the best writers of my generation' - John Irving 'A playful yet searching novel of gay life in the New York of Ed Koch and Studio 54' - Kirkus 'Smart, worldly, erudite, well-connected, and funny' - New York Review of Books 'Remarkable ... America's most significant gay writer' - Literary Review ______________ 'Has everyone always been in love with you? Of course they have, who am I kidding? What did they say about Helen of Troy? That her face launched a thousand ships? That's you, you're that beautiful. A thousand ships' New York City in the eighties, and at its decadent heart is Guy. The darling of Fire Island's gay community and one of New York's top male models, Guy is gliding his way to riches that are a world away from his modest provincial upbringing back home in France. Like some modern-day Dorian Gray he seems untouched by time: the decades pass, fashions change, yet his beauty remains as transcendent and captivating as ever. Such looks cannot help but bring him adoration. From sweet yet pathetic Fred to the wealthy and masochistic Baron, from the acerbic and cynical Pierre-Georges to Andre, fabricating Dalí fakes and hurtling towards prison and the abyss, all are in some way fixated on him. In return for the devotion and expensive gifts they lavish on him, he plays with unswerving loyalty whatever role they project onto him: unattainable idol, passionate lover, malleable client. But just as the years are catching up on his smooth skin and perfect body, so his way of life is closing in on him and destroying the men he loves. Edmund White has in Our Young Man created some of the richest representations of gay male identity, from the disco era to the age of AIDs. What links them all is the allure and enchantment they find in beauty. Revelling in its magic, Our Young Man nonetheless slips beneath the seductive surface to examine its dangerous depths, exploring its power to fascinate, enslave and deceive. Mesmerising, blackly comic, and delicately crafted, this is an exquisite novel from a contemporary master.

Author: Jonas Hanway
Publisher:
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Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 988

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Author: George S. Schuyler
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 037575380X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Modern Library Harlem Renaissance What would happen to the race problem in America if black people turned white? Would everybody be happy? These questions and more are answered hilariously in Black No More, George S. Schuyler's satiric romp. Black No More is the story of Max Disher, a dapper black rogue of an insurance man who, through a scientific transformation process, becomes Matthew Fisher, a white man. Matt dreams up a scam that allows him to become the leader of the Knights of Nordica, a white supremacist group, as well as to marry the white woman who rejected him when he was black. Black No More is a hysterical exploration of race and all its self-serving definitions. If you can't beat them, turn into them. Ishmael Reed, one of today's top black satirists and the author of Mumbo Jumbo and Japanese by Spring, provides a spirited Introduction. The fertile artistic period now known as the Harlem Renaissance (1920- 1930) gave birth to many of the world-renowned masters of black literature and is the model for today's renaissance of black writers.