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Author: Richard Canning
Publisher: New York : Alyson Books, 2009.
Edition/Format:  Book : English : 1st Alyson Books edView all editions and formats
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"In a wide-ranging group of essays by some of today's novelists, writers, and critics, Fifty Gay and Lesbian Books Everybody Must Read insists on the importance of these fifty titles to all readers but also challenges our own bookshelves to make room for new arrivals. Some familiar names - Melville, Plato, Sappho, Rimbaud - are seen afresh, while others will be unfamiliar and waiting to be discovered."--BOOK JACKET.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Richard Canning
ISBN: 9781607519782 160751978X 9781593501198 1593501196
OCLC Number: 261176548
Description: xviii, 342 p. ; 21 cm.
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.
Other Titles: Fifty gay and lesbian books everybody must read
Responsibility: edited and introduced by Richard Canning.

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"In a wide-ranging group of essays by some of today's novelists, writers, and critics, Fifty Gay and Lesbian Books Everybody Must Read insists on the importance of these fifty titles to all readers but also challenges our own bookshelves to make room for new arrivals. Some familiar names - Melville, Plato, Sappho, Rimbaud - are seen afresh, while others will be unfamiliar and waiting to be discovered."--BOOK JACKET.

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