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| Adam by Anthony McDonald. List Price:£9.99 |
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Adam is the 16-year-old most parents would love to have: he doesn't do drugs, comes top at school and regularly practises his cello. But there is another side to him, which comes to the fore when he falls for labourer Sylvain and gets sexually involved with two friends.
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| Millivres Prowler Group, Paperback 300 pages (1 June, 2003) [Hits: 447] |
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| Angel by Kirstie Speke. List Price:£6.99 |
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It's been eight weeks since Uma's husband walked out in search of some space. Eight weeks in which she's allowed herself to descend into a glorious state of self-exile and unleashed the misanthropic hermit within. But Uma needs cash and renting out a room seems to be an easy way to up her income. Before Uma knows what's hit her, Angel has turned up on her doorstep. A vision in Versace, Angel is three parts Marilyn Monroe to one part Amazon. Before long Uma finds herself succumbing to the temptation of glamour therapy (which is like retail but with better shops) and a whole new way of life. From house-mouse to party animal, Uma finds herself transformed as Angel introduces her to fabulous clubs, fetish bars, unconventional men and the joys of having big hair. 'You are what you choose to be' is Angel's maxim. But Uma realises that who Angel is could be open to interpretation...
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| , Paperback - 246 pages (5 April, 2001) [Hits: 222] |
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| At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill. List Price:£17.99 |
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You may have read the hype. Irishman Jamie O'Neill was working as a London hospital porter when his 10-year labour of love, the 200,000-word manuscript of At Swim, Two Boys, written on a laptop during quiet patches at work, was suddenly snapped up for a hefty six-figure advance. He had to open his first bank account to cash the cheque, the story goes. For once, the book fully deserves the hype. In the spring of 1915, Jim Mack and "the Doyler", two Dublin boys, make a pact to swim to an island in Dublin Bay the following Easter. By the time they do, Dublin has been consumed by the Easter Uprising, and the boys' friendship has blossomed into love--a love that will in time be overtaken by tragedy. O'Neill's prose, playing merrily with vocabulary, syntax and idiom, has unsurprisingly drawn comparisons to James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, but in his creation of comic characters (such as Jim's pathetic but irrepressible father) and in the sheer scale of his work, Charles Dickens springs to mind first. But Dickens never wrote a love story between young men as achingly beautiful as this. In the character of Anthony MacMurrough, haunted by voices as he pursues his illegal and dangerous desire for Dublin boys, O'Neill has created a complex and fascinating centre to his novel, rescuing the love story from mawkishness, and allowing a serious meditation on history, politics and desire. For as Ireland seeks its own future free of British government, so Jim, Doyle and MacMurrough look back to Sparta to find a way to live their own future. As Dr Scrotes, one of MacMurrough's voices, commands: Help these boys build a nation their own. Ransack the histories for clues to their past. Plunder the literature for words they can speak. In this massive, enthralling and brilliant début, Jamie O'Neill has indeed done just that: provided a nation for what Walt Whitman calls, in O'Neill's epigraph, "the love of comrades". --Alan Stewart
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| Scribner, Hardcover - 643 pages new edition (Sept 2001) [Hits: 397] |
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| Angels in America by Tony Kushner. List Price:£7.59 |
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Before picking up this book I had already categorized and stereotyped the plot, characters, and anticipated my reaction. I visualized a sob story featuring homosexuals who are misunderstood by society, I pictured stereotypical gay men with high-pitched voices, I knew this story would not make my top-ten list. But I have never been more wrong or judgemental about anything I've ever read.Tony Kushner's "Angels in America" may be one of the most touching accounts depicting American society that i have ever been invited to read. Life is not "sugar-coated" in this play, rather the truth is plainly put out on the table for all to see. The characters in this play are close to the heart and teach us that only the truth will set us free. They are unlikely, yet fitting angels for our generation. We meet Prior, a lonely man dying of AIDS who is the epitome of truth, chosen to prophesize to the masses. Louis and Joe who are both so different yet the same, both realizing the power of the "threshold of revelation". Roy, whose deceptiveness is the cause of his undoing, and Harper who is trapped in a world where the truth has no existence. Yet all of their lives are interconnected by a desire to make sense of the world around them.Amidst politics and controversy, high drama and comedic relief the characters remaining at the play's end have determined a better sense of self and what it means to be "real". I walked away from Kushner's "Angels" with a better sense of my own self and a more open mind. It was written with a compassion and sensitivity unlike any I've ever known or experienced. "Angels in America" is perhaps one of the most touching theatrical works of its day.
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| Theatre Communications Group , Paperback 304 pages [Hits: 460] |
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| All Boys Together by Robin Yeo (Editor). List Price:£9.95 |
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Adolescence, the worst of times for many boys growing up gay; feeling isolated, getting bullied, surrounded by untouchable young men. But for some, this is the best of times: sharing the tenderness of teenage friendships, and above all, exploring together what all boys have in common. Through the use of true stories and fantasy fiction, this collection by sixteen writers explore the joys of young friendships, romance, and desire.
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| , Paperback - 236 pages 1 (1 April, 2001) [Hits: 766] |
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| Adrenaline by James Robert Baker. List Price:£8.99 |
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It begins as a routine trick: two guys on a beach after midnight. Instant attraction, chemical overload, but in the heat of the moment they are interrupted. Brutalized by police, they fight back, a cop dies, and Nick and Jeff are on the run through Los Angeles at its worst. James Robert Baker's cult first novel--originally published under the name James Dillinger--is at once an anarchist's howl of rage at oppression and the soulless culture of Hollywood, and it is a noir thriller peppered with hilarious vignettes and ironic insight. Fueled by passion, fear, and methamphetamine, Nick and Jeff's odyssey through Southern California is a nightmare of hair-breadth escapes and bizarre encounters with, among others, a decadently decaying movie producer, a corrupt church official, a deranged neurosurgeon, and a psychotic cop; however, Adrenaline surges above the genre of fugitive fiction by casting a clear and wary eye on the disturbing darkness that lies below society's polished surface. It is this more than anything else that makes the story of Nick and Jeff, their love, and their flight, a modern parable of redemption.
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| , Paperback - 302 pages, Alyson Books Ed (7 Dec 2000) [Hits: 459] |
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