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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Baldwin's 1956 novel, his second, was daring for its time, depicting a young man deep into Paris's second expatriate movement following World War II as he grapples with his sexual identity. He is drawn both to his fiance and to a male Italian bartender with whom he begins an affair.
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
"Eddie Socket left a small town in deepest New Jersey, suffocating and eccentric parents, a name (Wally Jeffers), the gay-baiting years of high school, and the secluded unreality of college and headed for the city of Big Dreams: Manhattan. In his Lambda Literary Award-winning debut novel, John Weir reveals how the heady promise of one decade was challenged by the unimaginable grief of the next, and how that earlier promise was preserved by bravery,...
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
From the day he saw her in "Roman Holiday," Toshi, a young Japanese, has been infatuated with Audrey Hepburn and all things female-American. He gets his chance to try the real thing when he moves to Tokyo where there is no shortage of American women. The novel follows him from one culture shock to another. A debut in fiction.
Author
Language
English
Description
When Philip fall in love with Eliot, he realizes it's time to tell his parents who he is and how he lives. His parents may not be ready for this; they face serious changes in their own lives. This novel is about what we miss- or choose not to see -just beneath the surface of our lives. And what happens when we know too much.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
When Hoyt Stubblefield ambles into the cavernous bookstore on Hollywood Boulevard where nineteen-year-old Nathan Reed works, his good looks and wry Texas charm hold the boy spellbound. Within a week, Nathan has packed up his few belongings and moved in with Hoyt - into his upstairs rooms in a rickety old house, and into his bed. And so Nathan embarks on the happiest adventure of his young life, and the most ominous. For Hoyt inhabits not just the...
6) Christopher
Author
Series
B. K. Troop novels volume 1
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
"Unemployed, middle-aged, bipolar, gay, bitingly witty, erudite, unattractive, and lonely, B. K. Troop, the narrator of Christopher, isn't exactly looking forward to a life of exciting prospects - until he meets his new neighbor. Christopher Ireland is a twenty-five-year-old idealist and aspiring novelist still reeling from a bitter divorce. Even though B.
"Christopher recounts B.K.'s yearlong attempt to consummate his lust, with hilarious results....
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