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Thomas Mann - Death in Venice
Thomas Mann - Tonio Kröger
Jamie O'Neill - At Swim, Two Boys
Mark A Roeder - This Time Around
David Benedictus - The Fourth of June
Michael Campbell - Lord Dismiss Us
Roger Peyrefitte - Les Amitiés Particulières
Richard Cawley - The Butterfly Boy
Ted van Lieshout - Brothers Life Death Truth
Graham Greene - May we Borrow Your Husband?
Hans Olsson - Rollenspiele (Rollplays)
John Fox - The Boys on the Rock
Stephen Spender - The Temple
Angus Stewart - Sandel
David Levithan - Boy Meets Boys
Michael Davidson - Some Boys - A Homosexual Odyssey
These are not in any particular order.
Hugs
N
I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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Dear Nigel,
Wow, that was quick. And I am surprised how many of your list I didn't know.
I've just posted a suggestion in the authors stories ... thread. What do you think?
Love,
Anthony
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An admirable list, but I think that there are at least a couple of books missing from it. I would strongly recommend two novels by Mary Renault: "The Charioteer" and "The Last of the Wine". I would imagine that because they were written by a woman and because they are not overtly 'gay' Eldon could leave them lying around without too many qualms. I think that "The Charioteer" has reached the level of "must read classic" - and it is a superb novel, despite its age.
Just my twopennyworth.
J F R
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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Edmund White---The beautiful Room is Empty
Other works by Edmund White
Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you......
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I cant think of the authors name but a good book is "The Wizard of Loneliness"
Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you......
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Add 'The Persian Boy' to that list.
Hugs
N
I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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Excellent list!
A couple to add:
David Rees "The milkman's on his way" - one of the definitive novels aimed at the teen age group upwards in the early 1980s.
James Baldwin "Tell me how long the train's been gone" a massive sprawling work covering relations between all sexes, sexual orientations, and inter-racial relationships - underlying it all is a profound belief in our shared humanity. IMO, the greatest work of this eloquent and inspiring writer.
Anthony Burgess "Earthly Powers". A fictional autobiography covering most of the 20th century - and any writer that starts "It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced the Archbishop had come to see me" certainly knows how to work an opening!
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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John Nichols. This was also a movie.
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Yes, indeed NW,
"The milkman's on his way" was how I really came out to my younger daughter. She borrowed it without asking me and was rather surprised. She really liked it too. And David Rees wrote quite a lot of other books. I don't think anyone has mentioned Patrick Gale whose writing convinces me that he must be a really really nice guy (just as Jamie's writings do!).
But there are a lot and I'll collect all recommendations into a list.
Love,
Anthony
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