A Home at the End of the World

10 best books like A Home at the End of the World (Michael Cunningham): A Boy's Own Story, Mysterious Skin, The Lost Language of Cranes, The City and the Pillar, Dancer from the Dance, The World of Normal Boys, Shiloh and Other Stories, The Folding Star, Калечина-Малечина, Sauveur & Fils Saison 1

A Boy's Own Story
AuthorEdmund White
ISBN0375707409
Originally published in 1982 as the first of Edmund White's trilogy of autobiographical novels, A Boy's Own Story became an instant classic for its pioneering portrayal of homosexuality. The book's unnamed narrator, growing up during the 1950s, is beset by aloof parents, a cruel sister, and relentless...
AuthorScott Heim
ISBN0060841699
At the age of eight Brian Lackey is found bleeding under the crawl space of his house, having endured something so traumatic that he cannot remember an entire five–hour period of time.

During the following years he slowly recalls details from that night, but these fragments are not enough...
AuthorDavid Leavitt
ISBN1582345732
David Leavitt's extraordinary first novel, now reissued in paperback, is a seminal work about family, sexual identity, home, and loss.

Set in the 1980s against the backdrop of a swiftly gentrifying Manhattan, The Lost Language of Cranes tells the story of twenty-five-year-old Philip,...
AuthorGore Vidal
ISBN1400030374
A literary cause célèbre when first published more than fifty years ago, Gore Vidal's now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel of the gay experience.

Jim, a handsome, all-American athlete, has always been shy around girls. But when he and his best friend, Bob, partake...
AuthorAndrew Holleran
ISBN0060937068
One of the most important works of gay literature, this haunting, brilliant novel is a seriocomic remembrance of things past -- and still poignantly present. It depicts the adventures of Malone, a beautiful young man searching for love amid New York's emerging gay scene. From Manhattan's Everard...
AuthorK.M. Soehnlein
ISBN1575666618
In his stunning debut novel, The World Of Normal Boys, K.M. Soehnlein captures the spirit of a generation and an era, embodied in the haunting, unstoppable voice of thirteen-year-old Robin MacKenzie, a modern-day Holden Caulfield, whose struggle for a place in the world is as ferocious as it is real.The...
AuthorBobbie Ann Mason
ISBN0375758437
"These stories will last," said Raymond Carver of Shiloh and Other Stories when it was first published, and almost two decades later this stunning fiction debut and winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award has become a modern American classic. In Shiloh, Bobbie Ann Mason introduces us to her western Kentucky...
AuthorAlan Hollinghurst
ISBN1596910038
Boy, am I SOOOO enchanted with this elusive Mr. Hollinghurst! Although “The Folding Star” is definitely weaker and less “literary” than the rest (“Swimming-Pool Library,” “The Line of Beauty”), it still has that tight and elegant mechanical heart which impels the modern reader...
Калечина-Малечина
AuthorЕвгения Некрасова
Евгения Некрасова — писательница, сценаристка. Её цикл прозы «Несчастливая Москва» удостоен премии «Лицей». В новом романе «Калечина-Малечина»,...
Sauveur & Fils Saison 1
AuthorMarie-Aude Murail
Quand on s'appelle Sauveur, comment ne pas se sentir prédisposé à sauver le monde entier ? Sauveur Saint-Yves, 1,90 m pour 80 kg de muscles, voudrait tirer d'affaire Margaux Carré, 14 ans, qui se taillade les bras, Ella Kuypens, 12 ans, qui s'évanouit de frayeur devant sa prof de latin, Cyrille...
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