The Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction
2 journalers for this copy...
From Library Journal:
Collections of gay male fiction are published all the time, but it has been well over a decade since an anthology has attempted to be as truly representative as this volume, edited by well-known novelist White. Starting with Henry James and including E.M. Forster, Christopher Isherwood, William Burroughs, Tennessee Williams, and James Baldwin, among others, this anthology of short stories and novel extracts is noteworthy for its dazzling variety both in style and content. Among contemporary works there are AIDS-related stories (Andrew Holleran, Armistead Maupin, White himself), a precisely drawn narrative of the complexity of affectional ties by David Leavitt, and an excerpt from Alan Hollinghurst's frankly sexual The Swimming-Pool Library . If there is a thread throughout most of these stories, it is of displacement; as White notes in the introduction, "the gay man enjoys . . . a permanent sense of alienation from the tribe." This is for all fiction collections.
- Brian Kenney, St. John's Univ. Lib., Jamaica, N.Y.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Collections of gay male fiction are published all the time, but it has been well over a decade since an anthology has attempted to be as truly representative as this volume, edited by well-known novelist White. Starting with Henry James and including E.M. Forster, Christopher Isherwood, William Burroughs, Tennessee Williams, and James Baldwin, among others, this anthology of short stories and novel extracts is noteworthy for its dazzling variety both in style and content. Among contemporary works there are AIDS-related stories (Andrew Holleran, Armistead Maupin, White himself), a precisely drawn narrative of the complexity of affectional ties by David Leavitt, and an excerpt from Alan Hollinghurst's frankly sexual The Swimming-Pool Library . If there is a thread throughout most of these stories, it is of displacement; as White notes in the introduction, "the gay man enjoys . . . a permanent sense of alienation from the tribe." This is for all fiction collections.
- Brian Kenney, St. John's Univ. Lib., Jamaica, N.Y.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Journal Entry 2 by KC78 at Lambda Club On West Clay in Houston, Texas USA on Friday, September 17, 2004
This book was instead given to a friend at Lambda Center who is a fellow bookcrosser.....treknut.
Only God knows what he's doing with the book!!
Only God knows what he's doing with the book!!
Thanx for the book KC78... and welcome to the world of bookcrossers!!!