The penguin book of gay short stories / edited by David Leavitt and Mark Mitchell ; introduction by David Leavitt.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Viking, 1994.Description: xxviii, 655 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0670854689 :
  • 9780670854684 :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823/.010806642 20
LOC classification:
  • PR1309.H57 P46 1994
Contents:
A poem of friendship / D. H. Lawrence -- Arthur Snatchfold / E. M. Forster -- Sally Bowles / Christopher Isherwood -- Me and the girls / Noël Coward -- My father and myself [excerpt] / J. R. Ackerley -- May we borrow your husband? / Graham Greene -- Hands / Sherwood Anderson -- The teacher of American business English / James Kirkup -- Falconer [excerpt] / John Cheever -- The folded leaf [excerpt] / William Maxwell -- Servants with torches / Donald Windham -- Jimmy / Desmond Hogan -- Torridge / William Trevor -- Some of these days / James Purdy -- A glass of blessings [excerpt] / 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 ; The whiz kids / A. M. Homes.
Summary: This is an anthology of stories that, in the words of its co-editor David Leavitt, "illuminate the experience of love between men, explore the nature of homosexual identity, or investigate the kinds of relationships gay men have with each other, with their friends, and with their families." The stories are not written exclusively by gay authors; readers may be surprised to discover that some of their favorite female writers and straight male writers have also explored the territory. What the stories do share is a refusal to ghettoize gay men as denizens of the gay nocturnal subculture. The men in these stories live very much in the world; their sexuality, though an important aspect of their lives, doesn't singularly define them.
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A poem of friendship / D. H. Lawrence -- Arthur Snatchfold / E. M. Forster -- Sally Bowles / Christopher Isherwood -- Me and the girls / Noël Coward -- My father and myself [excerpt] / J. R. Ackerley -- May we borrow your husband? / Graham Greene -- Hands / Sherwood Anderson -- The teacher of American business English / James Kirkup -- Falconer [excerpt] / John Cheever -- The folded leaf [excerpt] / William Maxwell -- Servants with torches / Donald Windham -- Jimmy / Desmond Hogan -- Torridge / William Trevor -- Some of these days / James Purdy -- A glass of blessings [excerpt] / 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 ; The whiz kids / A. M. Homes.

This is an anthology of stories that, in the words of its co-editor David Leavitt, "illuminate the experience of love between men, explore the nature of homosexual identity, or investigate the kinds of relationships gay men have with each other, with their friends, and with their families." The stories are not written exclusively by gay authors; readers may be surprised to discover that some of their favorite female writers and straight male writers have also explored the territory. What the stories do share is a refusal to ghettoize gay men as denizens of the gay nocturnal subculture. The men in these stories live very much in the world; their sexuality, though an important aspect of their lives, doesn't singularly define them.

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