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	All Books by Lawrence Chua - Author of : Gold by the Inch Paperback - 224 pages (October 1999) Grove Press; ISBN: 0802136494 *~~ Featured Book Review ~~* "Gay Dramatic Novels; Lawrence Chua has long been praised for his astute cultural commentary and experimental prose. In his first novel, Gold by the Inch, he also proves himself as a vibrant and breathtaking writer of literary prose. The narrative follows a young gay man of Asian descent as he returns to Thailand from the United States for an extended visit and to recover from his father's death and a failed love affair. After becoming involved, well, obsessed, with a young male prostitute, the narrator has to confront issues he has long avoided: national identity, the exploitation of other people, and the endless clashes between Asian and Western cultures. Like the novels of Doris Lessing and Nadine Gordimer, Gold by the Inch attempts to wed the personal with the political, the emotional with the cultural. It is as much a novel of political ideas as it is a meditation on romantic and sexual relationships. Chua's prose is boldly literary and often shocking in its simplicity; he knows the power of words and has the ability to conjure up images that surprise and resonate." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Warwick Collins - Author of : Gents Hardcover - 160 pages (May 1997) Marion Boyars; ISBN: 071453028X "Gay Dramatic Novels; Not too many novels can lay claim to a men's restroom as their primary setting, but in the case of Warwick Collins's novel, Gents, a lavatory is an educational place. The hero of this slim volume is Ez Murphy, a Jamaican immigrant to London who finds work cleaning a public restroom. He soon becomes wise to the ways of a certain faction of the world--those who have romantic rendezvous in the toilet stalls. Ez might be naive, but he's not close-minded; when he discovers that his own son prefers hair-styling to soccer, he decides to investigate this alternative lifestyle before making up his mind. Like Ez himself, Gents is charming, honest, and willing to explore different points of view about homosexuality with compassion and humor." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Julio Cortazar - Author of : The Winners Paperback - 441 pages (September 1999) New York Review of Books; ISBN: 0940322315 "Gay Dramatic Novels; The winners of a state lottery, a cross section of the citizens of Buenos Aires, have received tickets for a mysterious luxury cruise. Summoned to meet in a popular cafe and escorted under the cover of darkness to the secret location of their ship, they embark without knowing where they are headed. Within hours the ship stops; the passengers are informed that a disease has broken out among the crew and that they will be confined to a small section of the ship . In suspense, the passengers mull over their pasts and the future, form attachments and suspicions, tell secrets, explore desires. But as some of them merely accept their confinement, others are increasingly driven to confront the crew, leading to an outbreak of violence that seems both inevitable and pointless." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Jameson Currier - Author of : Where the Rainbow Ends : A Novel Paperback - 320 pages 1 Ed (October 2000) Overlook Press; ISBN: 1585670847 "Gay Dramatic Novels; At the center of this epic tale is Robbie Taylor, who settles in New York City in 1978 as an optimistic, romantic young man with a circle of new friends. This powerful and passionate story of the trials and loves of a gay Everyman takes Robbie through a personal odyssey into enlightenment, spanning a period of almost fifteen years. As he navigates through the hedonism of his heady youth in Manhattan searching for faith, family, and understanding, Robbie is constantly being tested, like a modern-day Job. Currier masterfully weaves an ardent story about the families that we create for ourselves, a story that is at once lyrical, poignant, and sexy." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Daniel Curzon - Author of : Only The Good Parts Hardcover - 440 pages 1 edition (March 1998) Xlibris Corporation; ISBN: 0966350111 "Gay Dramatic Novels; A gay college professor named Marc Brandt arranges to have a child with a lesbian couple, anonymously. What follows are both clever and cruel deceptions, the paternal vs. the maternal, the very latest of the modern, and the oldest of the human." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Melvin Dixon - Author of : Vanishing Rooms Paperback - 211 pages (June 9, 2001) Cleis Pr; ISBN: 1573441236 "Gay Dramatic Novels; Prior to Melvin Dixon’s death from AIDS in 1992 when he was on the verge of breaking out as an acclaimed novelist, his talent was compared to that of Toni Morrison and James Baldwin. In Vanishing Rooms, the author amply demonstrates his literary promise with a compelling love story of interracial sex and urban violence set in Manhattan’s West Village in the 1970s." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Ronald L. Donaghe - Author of : The Salvation Mongers Paperback - 268 pages (July 13, 2000) ToExcel; ISBN: 0595098355 "Gay Dramatic Novels; The Salvation Mongers is the story of Kelly and his journey into the heart of the ex-gay movement, specifically the Lion's Mouth Christian Ranch. Kelly, enraged over the suicide of his former lover after he went thru religious conversion at the camp, decides to join up and get some answers. Part mystery, part soul searching journey, Kelly meets others who want to leave the gay world behind and in the process finds out the awful truth. Can he resist the powerful brainwashing or survive long enough to tell others? Or will he lose his own self-destiny in this deadly game of religious salvation?" Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Coleman Dowell - Author of : Island People (American Literature Series Reprint of 1976 Ed) Paperback (June 1996) Dalkey Archive Pr; ISBN: 1564780937 "Gay Dramatic Novels; In this complex novel, a gay man who has fled the violence of the city for an island retreat spends his time keeping a journal and writing stories. He invents a female alter-ego who haunts him, as does the ghost of the murderer who occupied his house in the 19th-century; ultimately these hauntings are manifestations of his own psychic disintegration. Considered by many to be Dowell's finest achievement, Island People conveys the fragmentation that results from prolonged isolation." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Larry Duplechan - Author of : Tangled Up in Blue (Stonewall Inn Editions) Paperback - 264 pages (November 1990) St. Martin's Press; ISBN: 0312051670 "Gay Dramatic Novels; A story of three people bound together by ties of love, passion, and friendship until a crisis for one threatens to destroy them all." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:

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