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	All Books by Richard Meeker, Forman Brown, Hubert Kennedy - Author of : Better Angel Paperback - 224 pages 4th edition (July 2000) 1933 Alyson Pubns; ISBN: 1555835732 *~~ Featured Book Review ~~* "Gay Dramatic Novels; Written in 1933, this classic, touching story focuses on a young man's gay awakening in the years between the World Wars and became an instant underground classic. Kurt Gray is a shy, bookish boy growing up in small-town Michigan. Even at the age of 13, he knows that somehow he is different. Gradually he recognizes his desire for a man's companionship and love. As a talented composer, breaking into New York's musical world, he finds the love he's sought. Considered to be one of the most important gay books ever written, this edition contains an updated epilogue and B&W photographs from the author's life." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Rebecca Brown - Author of : The Gifts of the Body Paperback - 176 pages (September 1995) Harper Perennial; ISBN: 0060926538 "Gay Dramatic Novels; A fictional account of how the AIDS epidemic affects everyday people is told from the perspective of a compassionate health-care worker, whose gentle ministrations to her patients cause her to become a witness to pain, grief, and love." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Edward Bunker - Author of : The Animal Factory Paperback - 202 pages (November 2000) Minotaur Books; ISBN: 0312267118 "Gay Dramatic Novels; Drawing on a lifetime's experience of the sordid, horrifically violent world of America's prisons, Edward Bunker's novel The Animal Factory tells a tale of two convicts. Ronald Decker, guilty of a minor drug dealing charge, is put away in San Quentin. Earl Copen takes it upon himself to instruct the younger man in the brutal protocol of San Quentin and the strategies essential for survival. Their growing friendship is tested when Ron's rejection of a homosexual advance by another con leads to an act of fatal violence, and they seize upon a remote chance of escape. The Animal Factory is the ultimate prison novel." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Anthony Burgess - Author of : Earthly Powers Amazon.co.uk Only Paperback - 672 pages New [ed.] (7 June, 2001) Penguin Books; ISBN: 0141185686 "Gay Dramatic Novels; Anthony Burgess' epic masterpiece traces eighty-one years in the life of a Somerset Maugham-type writer and lapsed Catholic called Kenneth Toomey. A popular, second-rate novelist/playwright, he spends a lifetime unsuccessfully trying to reconcile his homosexuality with his faith. This is also the story of Carlo Campanati, an earthy Italian priest linked with Toomey through family ties. With dazzlingly inventive narrative spanning six decades, Burgess draws in major events and characters of the century while exploring themes of universal significance." Click to buy this book in the UK:
	All Books by Truman Capote - Author of : Other Voices, Other Rooms Paperback - 231 pages Reprint edition (February 1994) Vintage Books; ISBN: 0679745645 "Gay Dramatic Novels; Provocative and disturbing, Truman Capote's first published novel is a meditation on how fate can debase youthful expectations. Joel Knox seeks his long-absent father and his own future, but nothing turns out as planned. Joel's desolate, ugly world is brilliantly presented through Whitman's throaty voice. His vocal characterizations present various ages, social backgrounds and sexual identities. Even during narrative sections Whitman evokes the personalities of the characters. This adds cogency to the vivid descriptions." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Blaise Cendrars - Author of : To the End of the World Paperback - 256 pages (March 2002) Peter Owen Ltd; ISBN: 0720610974 "Gay Dramatic Novels; Translated from French - Cendrars's 1966 novel features the flamboyant Parisian actress Blaise, who gets involved in the murder of a barman. The book also serves as a portrait of Paris in the 1940s, with characters and parts of the story based on the author's experiences there." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by John Champagne - Author of : When the Parrot Boy Sings Paperback - 205 pages (May 1990) Carol Pub Group; ISBN: 0821620096 "Gay Dramatic Novels; This slight novel follows the misadventures of Will, a young, gay, vegetarian Marxist who constructs collages, lives with an alcoholic lesbian, and loves soap operas. He imagines ``the fish baby'' and ``the parrot boy,'' personae through whom he tries to make sense of his search for love. After three one-night stands (which he refers to as ``misunderstandings''), he begins an ill-fated affair with long-time lovers Scott and Dennis. ``The parrot boy'' mercifully does away with ``the fish baby,'' as Will stands up to a manipulative gay couple whose apartment he cleans and end the ménage a trois with Scott and Dennis." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by John Cheever - Author of : Falconer Paperback - 211 pages Reprint edition (December 1991) Vintage Books; ISBN: 0679737863 "Gay Dramatic Novels; A study of the elaborate personalities that develop within prison walls, and their tenuous relation to prisoners' past lives and crimes. A convicted drug addict and murderer adapts to the gloom, fascination and eroticism of the new camaraderie." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:

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