Jack Holmes and His Friend

6 best books like Jack Holmes and His Friend (Edmund White): We Contain Multitudes, Maurice, Lie With Me, What Belongs to You, The Golovlyov Family, Modernism: The Lure of Heresy from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond

We Contain Multitudes
AuthorSarah Henstra
ISBN0316524654
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe meets I'll Give You the Sun in an exhilarating and emotional novel about the growing relationship between two teen boys, told through the letters they write to one another.

Jonathan Hopkirk and Adam "Kurl" Kurlansky are partnered in...
Maurice
AuthorE.M. Forster
ISBN0393310329
Maurice is heartbroken over unrequited love, which opened his heart and mind to his own sexual identity. In order to be true to himself, he goes against the grain of society’s often unspoken rules of class, wealth, and politics.
Forster understood that his homage to same-sex love, if published...
Lie With Me
AuthorPhilippe Besson
ISBN1501197878
The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson about an affair between two teenage boys in 1984 France, translated with subtle beauty and haunting lyricism by the iconic and internationally acclaimed actress/writer Molly Ringwald.

We drive at high speed along back roads,...
What Belongs to You
AuthorGarth Greenwell
ISBN0374288224
On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia’s National Palace of Culture. There he meets Mitko, a charismatic young hustler, and pays him for sex. He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, drawn by hunger and loneliness and risk,...
AuthorM.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin
ISBN0940322579
Searingly hot in the summer, bitterly cold in the winter, the ancestral estate of the Golovlyov family is the end of the road. There Anna Petrovna rules with an iron hand over her servants and family-until she loses power to the relentless scheming of her hypocritical son Porphyry.

One of the...
AuthorPeter Gay
ISBN0393052052
Peter Gay's most ambitious endeavor since Freud explores the shocking modernist rebellion that, beginning in the 1840s, transformed art, literature, music and film with its assault on traditional forms. Beginning his epic study with Baudelaire, whose lurid poetry scandalized French stalwarts,...
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