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GRACE LAKE

Glen Huser

The summer of his death, a man returns to the camp for boys where he has long been a counselor. There, he confronts his past, riddled with guilt for his life unlived, and the suppression of his homosexuality. NeWest Press Paperback $8.95

CONTROLLED EXPLOSION Dave Royle Summertime, and for John, the living is easy. With an apparently secure career, his own home, a collection of well-nurtured friendships, and no shortage of sexual playmates, it seems he's got it all. But when things are that good, they can only get worse, as his friends will attest. Trouser Press Paperback $11.50

FAG HAG

Robert Rodi Natalie Stathis is a fun loving secretary with hair like a mushroom cloud. She has spent most of her life in pursuit of gorgeous gay artist Peter. But when he falls for Lloyd, she begins a plan to get rid of him with the help of people from the seedier side of gay life.

Plume

Paperback $10.00

THE CAT IN THE TULIPS David Evans

Both in the later flush of life, old friends Ned and Norman set off on their annual weekend visit to enjoy a traditional spring break in a quiet Sussex village. Things turn upside down when Ned rushes to the aid of a friend: there is a cliff-top rescue, a hardfought game of Scrabble, Agatha Christie, a sherry party, and Norman falls in love with a puss needing a

home.

Millivres Books Paperback $15.95

FAREWELL TO MY CONCUBINE Lilian Lee This sweeping drama that spans five decades tells the intertwining life stories of two Beijing opera actors of the 1920s. Duan, the older of the two, is trained for the warrior roles, and Cheng is selected to learn the female parts. Cheng soon falls in love with Duan. Duan, however, falls for a beautiful courtesan and marries her, leaving Cheng to give himself to the stage and be a kept man by a wealthy patron. But their lives soon clash with the changing political climate, forcing both men to live out an opera of tragedy in their real lives. Morrow

Hardback $18.00

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DREAM LIFE

Bo Huston When precocious 13 year old Jed refuses to go to school, his rich, selfabsorbed mother solves the problem by hiring Hollis Flood, a gay man, as his home tutor. But when Hollis decides it's time to move on, and Jed decides to tag along, the world screams kidnap. Told alternately in jed and Hollis' voices, this is their story as they hit the road. St. Martin's Press Paperback $8.95

THE LISTENER

A NOVELLA AND FIVE STORIES Bo Huston

Set in a small town in Nothern California, the novella revolves around Jane,the town's crazy lady whose obsessions become a physical threat to her little boy, and Paul, a gay man from San Francisco seeking solitude to recover from the death of a friend. Jane finds God and Paul finds Jane in a story that shimmers with magic realism. The same themes of love, family, and faith reverberate through all the stories to illuminate Huston's vision of life. St. Martin's Press Hardback $17.95

SUCH TIMES Christopher Coe Through the eyes and thoughts of Timothy, over an evening dinner with Dominick, we see the life struggle of a person who died of AIDS, one who is dying of AIDS, and one who is unsure of his status. He realizes that although AIDS is a malady to die from, it is also an affliction that must be lived with. Harcourt Brace Hardback $22.95

UNTOLD TALE

Jonathan Strong Sam Lara's family owned a mill, Otis Cable's father was a handyman, and the two boys grew up together. Sam, wild and rebellious, left home at 18 to explore the world, while Otis took up hammer and became like his father. A world-weary Sam later returns, accompanied by a handsome young Arabservant or lover no one can tell. He's come back to reclaim his father's mill and perhaps heal a wound he'd inflicted thirty years before on his friend. Zoland Books Hardback $19.95

LABOUR OF LOVE Doug Wilson The lover of Peter McGehee, Wilson used detailed notes to complete this third in the trilogy of books started by the late author. It includes Zero MacNoo and his wonderfully zany circle of friends, family, lovers and exlovers as they struggle to get through life and death in the age of AIDS. St. Martin's Press Hardback $18.95

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RAVEN'S BROOD

E.F. Benson Bristling with sexuality, this novel features Benson's most overtly homosexual character: Willie Polhaven. This book is a comic tour-de-force of fertility rituals, phallic symbols, lustful boilings, trollops, shrews, witchcraft, pregnancy and a touch of blasphemy. Pure British humor.

Millivres Books Paperback $14.95

THE DREYFUS AFFAIR

Peter Lefcourt Baseball superstar Randy Dreyfus is the best hitting, most happily married young shortstop in the majors, until he develops an uncontrollable urge to ask his second baseman, D.J. Pickett, out on a date. When the two men fall in love and are found out, what follows is a provocative and rollicking odyssey through an unforgettable World Series Championship season. HarperPerennial Paperback $12.00

LIVING UPSTAIRS

Joseph Hansen

This is the story of a young homosexual man's coming of age in the scruffy, sunstruck, backstreet Hollywood of the 1940s. Young Nathan Reed struggles to earn a living, write his first novel, and to make sense of his love for a lanky, affable Texan with young too many secrets. Nathan senses too late the danger closing in on him, as the story races toward its climax-a betrayal as shocking as it is unexpected. Dutton

Hardback $20.00

THE DISSOLUTION OF NICHOLAS DEE Matthew Stadler This darkly comic novel chronicles the life of a young, intense, anxietyridden history professor whose crippling fear of loss becomes his undoing. He is lulled to sleep at night by the city's constant clatter of police choppers. Then the novel shifts to an absurd reality as a dwarf named Amelia introduces him to a gifted boy named Oscar, and uses them both in a scam. Nicholas finds out and flees, with the boy he now loves, to Holland. Scribner's

Hardback $20.00

WHILE ENGLAND SLEEPS

David Leavitt Set against rise of fascism in 1930s Europe, this is the story of a love affair between aristocratic young British writer Brian Botsford, who thinks homosexuality is something he will outgrow, and Edward Phelan, a sensitive and idealistic working-class employee of the London Underground and a Communist party member. When Edward leaves to fight Franco in Spain Brian follows him into the chaos of war. Viking Hardback $22.00

INDECENT EXPOSURES Robert Bahr

A collection of often erotic stories about repressed homosexual feelings, and white trash people who don't do lunch. Each story has an unexpected twist in the ending that will linger after you've finished reading. Factor Press Paperback $9.50

LIVE FROM GOLGOTHA THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO GORE VIDAL Gore Vidal Thanks to a breakthrough in computers, an NBC crew races into the past to capture live the crucifixion, guaranteed to boost ratings. Meanwhile, a hacker is trying to destroy the tapes. One tape, that of St. Timothy, is saved, and he struggles against dark forces to complete his gospel, including his travels with St. Paul, his date rape by Nero, followed by martyrdom, fire, and the big show at Golgotha. Penguin Books Paperback $11.00

WHORES OF LOST ATLANTIS Charles Busch Julian Young is one of the most loveable heroes in ages. He spends years doing solo performances at shopping malls and 50th birthday parties, but can't hit the big time until one day, while temping at a Wall Street firm, he writes the play of a lifetime, in which he will star-in dazzling, brilliant drag! Written by the star of the long running Vampire Lesbians of Sodom.

Hyperion Hardback $21.95

THE GRASS HARP INCLUDING A TREE OF NIGHT AND OTHER STORIES

Truman Capote The Grass Harp tells about people in a small town who defy narrow conventions in search of love and freedom. A Tree Of Night provides eight stories exploring the misery, horror, and loneliness of modern life.

Vintage Paperback $10.00

BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S

AND THREE STORIES Truman Capote

A modern classic, the story of a piquantly wacky exhillbilly, Holly Golightly, who lives in an Upper East Side Manhattan brownstone. A kind of expense account tramp, alone and a little afraid, in a lot of beds she never made. Vintage Paperback $10.00

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