The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories by David Leavitt

The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories by David Leavitt

These thirty-nine stories chronicle the gay experience over the course of the last century, beginning with the unarticulated longing of two boys swimming in D.H. Lawrence's A Poem of Friendship and ending with the explicit sexual interaction of two boys in a bathtub in A.M. Homes's The Whiz Kids.

In between there is every imaginable kind of gay story written by every imaginable kind of writer--gay and straight, male and female--all illuminating the common ground of the gay male experience and its astonishing diversity.

The book is like a long enjoyable party, at which the celebrated rub elbows with the neglected.--Times Literary Supplement

These thirty-nine stories chronicle the gay experience over the course of the last century, beginning with the unarticulated longing of two boys swimming in D.H. Lawrence's A Poem of Friendship and ending with the explicit sexual interaction of two boys in a bathtub in A.M. Homes's The Whiz Kids.

In between there is every imaginable kind of gay story written by every imaginable kind of writer--gay and straight, male and female--all illuminating the common ground of the gay male experience and its astonishing diversity.

The book is like a long enjoyable party, at which the celebrated rub elbows with the neglected.--Times Literary Supplement

Leavitt, David: - David Leavitt's first collection of stories, Family Dancing, was published when he was just twenty-three and was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Faulkner Prize. The Lost Language of Cranes was made into a BBC film, and While England Sleeps was short-listed for the Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize. With Mark Mitchell, he coedited The Penguin Book of Short Stories, Pages Passed from Hand to Hand, and cowrote Italian Pleasures. Leavitt is a recipient of fellowships from both the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He divides his time between Italy and Florida.

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ISBN 13	9780670854684
ISBN 10	0670854689
Title	The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories
Author	David Leavitt
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Viking Books
Year published	1994-01-14
Number of pages	688
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