Buddies
10 best books like Buddies (Ethan Mordden): Was, Martin and John, Eighty-Sixed, He's The One, Afterlife, The Men from the Boys, American Studies, The Salt Point, Nights in Aruba, On the Other Hand, Death
| Author | Geoff Ryman |
| ISBN | 0140178724 |
There's no place like home. There's no place like home. - Dorothy GaleIs that necessarily a bad thing?
We have all had the experience, as kids usually, of seeing something that inspired us. Whether it was to hit a baseball, run faster than anyone else, jump higher, shoot straighter, sing with...
| Author | Dale Peck |
| ISBN | 0374530300 |
In Martin and John, Dale Peck weaves together two sets of stories to create a haunting, heartrending portrait of an artist in our time. The first is told episodically by John, a hustler in New York, who falls in love with Martin, a man dying of AIDS. Interwoven with these stories is a second set, in which...
| Author | David B. Feinberg |
| ISBN | 0802139027 |
In 1980, B. J. Rosenthal's only mission is to find himself a boyfriend and avoid setbacks like bad haircuts, bad sex, and Jewish guilt. In post-AIDS 1986, B.J.'s world has changed dramatically -- his friends and lovers are getting sick, everyone is at risk, and B.J. is panicking. Parrying high-wire...
| Author | Timothy James Beck |
| ISBN | 0758203233 |
From Timothy James Beck, the acclaimed author of It Had To Be You, comes his second delightfully witty, thoroughly heartfelt novel as he introduces a Midwestern jock-slash-computer geek who comes to the big city in search of love, career, friendship, and a chance to find out if...
He s The One
Something...
| Author | Paul Monette |
| ISBN | 0758201885 |
Afterlife is a haunting and unforgettable story of men facing loss and seeking love, movingly capturing the moment in the 1980s when the AIDS epidemic was completely devastating the American gay community. Here, National Book Award winner Paul Monette depicts three men of various economic and social...
| Author | William J. Mann |
| ISBN | 0452278562 |
Jeff O’Brien - bright, good-looking, and inching dangerously past thirty, is caught between two generations, the Baby Boomers and Generation X. He’s been with his partner, Lloyd, for seven years now, but when Lloyd announces that there’s no passion left between them, Jeff is sent into something...
| Author | Mark Merlis |
| ISBN | 0140250905 |
Reeve thinks his life is over: his career is at a dead end, his face is a mess, and his landlord is evicting him from his apartment because he made too much noise when a hustler beat him up. As he lies in his hospital bed, trying to figure out what to do next, he finds himself brooding about the parallel ruin of...
From the award-winning author of The Coming Storm comes the brilliantly conceived and precisely rendered novel The Salt Point, which explores the lives of four people-Anatole, Leigh, Chris, and Lydia-and their intermingled and unwinding desires. Set in a Poughkeepsie mall, the Main Street to a...
| Author | Andrew Holleran |
| ISBN | 0060937343 |
This groundbreaking novel of gay life centers around Paul, an uneasy commuter between two parallel worlds. He is the dutiful son of aging, upper-middle-class parents living in Florida, and a homosexual man plunged deliriously into the world of New York City's bars, baths, and one-night stands. With...
| Author | Richard Stevenson |
| ISBN | 0312118716 |
When the giant Millpond Company finds its plans for a mega-shopping mall stymied by the refusal of an elderly lesbian couple to sell their home, the ladies are subjected to ugly vandalism and frightening death threats. The powerful director of Millpond in turn hires Don Strachey, Albany's only gay...
| Author | Edmund White |
| ISBN | 0312022638 |
A hauntingly beautiful evocation of lost love, Noctunes for the King of Naples has all the startling, almost embarrassing, intimacy of a stranger's love letters. The intense emotional situation envelops the readers from the first page; like all images in a dream, White's characters are the most real...
| Author | David Leavitt |
| ISBN | 0395901286 |
Here are three novellas of escape and exile, touching and funny and at times calculatedly outrageous.
In "Saturn Street," a disaffected L.A. screenwriter delivers lunches to homebound AIDS patients, only to find himself falling in love with one of them.
In "The Wooden Anniversary,"...
| Author | Felice Picano |
| ISBN | 1555836992 |
In 1979, Felice Picano rocketed to fame with the publication of this shocking, controversial thriller. Riveting and candid in its depiction of the gay sexual subculture of the era, and praised by Stephen King as "Explosive... Felice Picano is one hell of a writer". "The Lure" thrusts young widower...
| Author | Christopher Bram |
| ISBN | 0452273374 |
James Whale, the elegant director of such classic horror films as"Frankenstein" and "The Bride of Frankenstein, " was found at his Los Angeles mansion in 1957, dead of unnatural causes. Christopher Bram, whose social insight and wit have earned him comparisons to Henry James and Gore Vidal, explores...
| Author | Patricia Nell Warren |
| ISBN | 0964109972 |
I found this book an exceptional read, although that may be because it includes many things that I can relate to. I'm a gay man. I was Catholic in my youth. I'm Cheyenne Indian. And I understand the strange workings of "the small town." All of these points conspire to create characters, situations, and...
| Author | Henry Blake Fuller |
| ISBN | 1885983263 |
In 1918, when Henry Blake Fuller was 62 years old, he completed Bertram Cope's Year. Though Fuller was well known as an accomplished realist and had published twelve previous novels, this was his first to address sexual ambivalence. Bertram Cope, a young college teaching assistant, is befriended...
| Author | Robert Rodi |
| ISBN | 0452273455 |
Kirkus calls him "the undisputed doyen of the effervescent gay novel of manners". Which, in his characters' vernacular, means he's a total scream.Having made a career of deconstructing the denizens of the modern gay world, Robert Rodi now turns his hand to -- and twists the knife in -- yet another gay...
