The Pure Lover
A Memoir of Grief
Written by David Plante

Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: October 26, 2010
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0620-7 (0-8070-0620-3)

The Pure Lover is David Plante’s elegy to his beloved Nikos Stangos, their forty-year life together, and its tragic end. Written in vivid fragments that, like the pieces of a mosaic, come together into a glimmering whole, it shows us both the wild nature of grief and the intimate conversation that... Read more >

The Best Little Boy in the World

Written by Andrew Tobias and John Reid

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: May 11, 1993
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-38176-7 (0-345-38176-9)

"The quality of this book is fantastic because it comes of equal parts honesty and logic and humor. It is far from being the story of a gay crusader, nor is it the story of a closet queen. It is the story of a normal boy growing into maturity without managing... Read more >

The City and the Pillar
A Novel
Written by Gore Vidal

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 2, 2003
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3037-8 (1-4000-3037-4)

A literary cause célèbre when first published more than fifty years ago, Gore Vidal’s now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel of the gay experience.

Jim, a handsome, all-American athlete, has always been shy around girls. But when he and his best friend, Bob, partake in “awful kid... Read more >

The Pilgrim Hawk
A Love Story
Written by Glenway Wescott
Introduction by Michael Cunningham

Format: Trade Paperback, 136 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: August 16, 2011
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-59017-457-9 (1-59017-457-7)

This powerful short novel describes the events of a single afternoon. Alwyn Towers, an American expatriate and sometime novelist, is staying with a friend outside of Paris, when a well-heeled, itinerant Irish couple drops in–with Lucy, their trained hawk, a restless, sullen, disturbingly totemic presence. Lunch is prepared, drink flows. A... Read more >

The Beautiful Room Is Empty
A Novel
Written by Edmund White

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 4, 1994
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75540-1 (0-679-75540-3)

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award

When the narrator of White's poised yet scalding autobiographical novel first embarks on his sexual odyssey, it is the 1950s, and America is "a big gray country of families on drowsy holiday." That country has no room for a scholarly teenager with guilty, but insatiable stirrings... Read more >

Caracole

Written by Edmund White

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 28, 1996
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-76416-8 (0-679-76416-X)

In French caracole means "prancing"; in English, "caper." Both words perfectly describe this high-spirited erotic adventure. In Caracole, White invents an entire world where country gentry languish in decaying mansions and foppish intellectuals exchange lovers and gossip in an occupied city that resembles both Paris under the Nazis and 1980s New... Read more >

Forgetting Elena
A Novel
Written by Edmund White

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 4, 1994
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75573-9 (0-679-75573-X)

Combining glittering wit, an atmosphere dense in social paranoia, and a breathtaking elegance and precision of language, White's first novel suggests a hilarious apotheosis of the comedy of manners. For, on the privileged island community where Forgetting Elena takes place, manners are everything. Or so it seems to White's excruciatingly self-conscious... Read more >

The Married Man
A Novel
Written by Edmund White

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 11, 2001
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-78144-8 (0-679-78144-7)

In Edmund White’s most moving novel yet, an American living in Paris finds his life transformed by an unexpected love affair.

Austin Smith is pushing fifty, loveless and drifting, until one day he meets Julien, a much younger, married Frenchman. In the beginning, the lovers’ only impediments are the comic clashes... Read more >

The Albino Album
A Novel
Written by Chavisa Woods

Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-60980-476-3 (1-60980-476-7)

Emerging author Chavisa Woods has been noted for capturing a “strange, troubling vision of domestic life in the rural U.S.” (Go Magazine). Here she presents a technicolored vision of rural adolescence, the story of a girl with an unpronounceable name–a fiery, unhinged, growling, big-hearted country girl in a dirty black tutu... Read more >