The Penguin book of gay short stories
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The Penguin book of gay short stories
Viking, 1994
- : hbk
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The collection ranges from the tender unarticulated longings of D.H. Lawrence's "A Poem of Friendship" and ends with the explicit sexual interaction of two boys in a bathtub in A.M. Homes's "The Two Whiz Kids". Writers include both men and women, gay and straight, amongst them: Barbara Pym, Edna O'Brien, F.M. Forster, Christopher Isherwood, Paul Bailey, William Trevor and Edmund White.
Table of Contents
- Introduction, David Leavitt
- "Poem of Friendship", D.H. Lawrence
- "Arthur Snatchfold", E.M. Forster
- "Sally Bowles", Christopher Isherwood
- "Me and the Girls", Noel Coward
- from "My father and Myself", J.R. Ackerley
- "May We Borrow Your Husband?, Graham Greene
- "Hands", Sherwood Anderson
- "The Teacher Of American Business English", James Kirkup
- from "Falconer", John Cheever
- from "The Folded Leaf", William Maxwell
- "Servants with Torch", Donald Windham
- "Jimmy", Desmond Hogan
- "Torridge", William Trevor
- "Some of These Days", James Purdy
- from "A Glass of Blessings", Barbara Pym
- "Reprise", Edmund White
- "Dramas", Edna O'Brien
- "Mrs Tefillin", Larry Kramer
- "Spunk", Paul Bailey
- "The "Times" as it Knows Us", Allen Barnett
- "The Princess from Africa", David Plante
- "Adult Art", Allan Gurganus
- "The Cinderella Waltz", Ann Beattie
- "Good with Words", Stephen Greco
- "Nothing to Ask For", Dennis McFarland
- "Ignorant Armies", Michael Cunningham
- "Run, Mourner, Run", Randall Kenan
- "Six Fables", Bernard Cooper
- "Perrin and the Fallen Angel", Peter Wells
- "My Mother's Clothes: The School of Beauty and Shame", Richard McCann
- "A Place I've Never Been", David Leavitt
- "Notes Towards a Performance of Jean Racine's Tragedy "Athalie"", Neil Bartlett
- "Buried Treasure", Gary Glickman
- "Self-Portrait in Twenty-three Rounds", David Wojnarowicz
- "Jump or Dive", Peter Cameron
- "Gentlemen Can Wash Their Hands in the Gents", Christopher Coe
- "The Dancing Lesson", Gerry Albarelli
- "A Real Doll", A.M. Homes
- "The Whiz Kids", A.M. Homes.
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