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Title:

50 gay and lesbian books everybody must read / edited and introduced by Richard Canning.

Edition:

1st Alyson Books ed.

Publisher:

Alyson Books,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

xviii, 342 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Gays' writings--History and criticism.
Homosexuality in literature.
Homosexuality and literature.
Books and reading.

Other Authors:

Canning, Richard.

Contents:

Introduction / Richard Canning -- Samuel and 2 Samuel (after 960 BC) / Aaron Hamburger -- Gilgamesh (between 668 and 627 BC) / David McConnell -- Poems (c. 600 BC), Sappho / Maureen Duffy -- The symposium (c. 384 BC), Plato / Shaun Levin -- Letters (1798 and later), Horace Walpole / Duncan Fallowell -- Moby Dick (1851), Herman Melville / Vestal McIntyre -- Leaves of grass (1855 and later), Walt Whitman / Philip Clark -- A season in hell = Une saison en enfer (1873), Arthur Rimbaud / Kevin Killian -- The Bostonians (1866), Henry James / Regina Marler -- A Shropshire lad (1896), A.E. Housman / Mark Merlis -- De Profundis (1895-97, published 1905 and 1962), Oscar Wilde / Fenton Johnson -- Claudine at school = Claudine à l'école (1900), Colette / Alison Smith -- Death in Venice = Tod in Venedig (1912), Thomas Mann / Christopher Bram -- The flower beneath the foot (1923), Ronald Firbank / Brian Bouldrey -- Mrs. Dalloway (1925), Virginia Woolf / Jane DeLynn -- Time regained = Le temps retrouvé (1927), Marcel Proust / Felice Picano -- More women than men (1933), Ivy Compton-Burnett / Lisa Cohen -- Poems (1935 and later), Constantine Cavafy / David Plante -- Nightwood (1936), Djuna Barnes / Eric Karl Anderson -- The letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (1922-41; 1985), Vita Sackville-West / Carol Anshaw -- Brideshead revisited (1945), Evelyn Waugh / Bob Smith -- Memoirs of Hadrian = Mémoires d'Hadrien (1951), Marguerite Yourcenar / Edmund White -- Carol: The price of salt (1952), Patricia Highsmith / Stella Duffy -- In the making (1952), G.F. Green / Peter Parker -- Forbidden colors (1953), Yukio Mishima / Randall Kenan -- Howl and other poems (1956), Allen Ginsberg / David Bergman -- Giovanni's room (1956), James Baldwin / Douglas A. Martin -- First love and other sorrows: stories (1958), Harold Brodkey / Noel Alumit -- A taste of honey (1958), Shelagh Delaney / John Weir -- A single man (1964), Christopher Isherwood / Patrick Ryan -- Paradiso (1966), José Lezama Lima / RIchard Reitsma -- Eustace Chisholm and the works (1967), James Purdy / Jonathan Franzen -- My father and myself (1968), J.R. Ackerley / Andrew Holleran -- Betrayed by Rita Hayworth = La traicion de Rita Hayworth (1968), Mañuel Puig / R. Zamora Linmark -- The wild boys: a book of the dead (1971), William Burroughs / Kathy Acker -- The Persian boy (1972), Mary Renault / Jim Grimsley -- Too much flesh and Jabez (1977), Coleman Dowell / Bradley Craft -- Dancer from the dance (1978), Andrew Holleran / Matias Viegener -- The cancer journals (1980), Audre Lorde / Tania Katan -- The color purple (1982), Alice Walker / Mark Behr -- A boy's own story (1983), Edmund White / Robert Glück -- Oranges are not the only fruit (1985), Jeanette Winterson / V.G. Lee -- To the friend who did not save my life = A l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie (1990), Hervé Guibert / Alistair McCartney -- The terrible girls (1990), Rebecca Brown / Carol Guess -- The man who fell in love with the moon (1991), Tom Spanbauer / Larry Duplechan -- Take me to Paris, Johnny (1993), John Foster / Rob Beeston -- Palimpsest (1995), Gore Vidal / Paul Reidinger -- Allan Stein (1999), Matthew Stadler / Blair Mastbaum -- Ghost dance (2004), Douglas Wright / Richard Canning -- Burning dreams (2006), Susan Smith / J.D. Glass.

ISBN:

1593501196 (pbk.)
9781593501198 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)261176548

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)