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You might want to get out the tissues for these novels! This section features gritty lifestyle dramas, heart wrenching family stories, dramatic coming out stories, historical dramas and much more.

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	All Books by Stuart Edelson - Author of : Black Glass: A Sea Myth Hardcover (May 1993) Dimi Press; ISBN: 093162522X "Gay Dramatic Novels; During the Vietnam conflict, a gay sailor falls in love with a straight sailor and soon realizes the tragic impossibility of the situation." Click to buy this book in USA or Canada:
	All Books by Bret Easton Ellis - Author of : Less than Zero Paperback - 208 pages Reprint edition (June 1998) Vintage Books; ISBN: 0679781498 "Gay Dramatic Novels; Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, a best-selling novel follows a cast of upper-class, good-looking, oversexed, drug-addled, thrill-seeking, college-age characters on the road to perdition." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by John R Gordon - Author of : Black Butterflies Paperback (July 1994) Heretic Books; ISBN: 0854491996 "Gay Dramatic Novels; Imaginative and well-written view of a black man coming to terms with his sexuality and dealing with grief over the death of a man he didn't realise he loved and how he came to find love. It speaks from the perspective of being black in the UK and dealing with the issue of suppressing sexuality by getting married. It is fair to both partners in the marriage. The language and grammar is geared towards urban life and is authentic." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by John R Gordon - Author of : Skin Deep Paperback - 256 pages (May 1997) Heretic Books; ISBN: 0854492461 "Gay Dramatic Novels; Two young and talented black men, photographer Ray and struggling actor Chris, are best friends in 1990s London. But Ray is only attracted to white men, which Chris sees as betraying his race, while Chris is into a heavy sexual masochism which Ray cannot understand. Their current lovers bring more complications. Drawn into the S/M scene through his relationship with Chris, the heterosexually-identified pimp Clinton is imprisoned for manslaughter; and Ray's young white lover Louis is beaten into a coma by a black street gang. " Click to buy this book in USA or UK:
	All Books by Elorin Grey - Author of : Jordan Hardcover (January 1, 1989) Dufour Editions; ISBN: 0720607450 "Gay Dramatic Novels; This introspective narrative tells the story of pathologically shy and troubled 16-year-old Jordan, whose strange behavior remains an ever-present mystery to his elder cousin Keith. Thrown together each year by the annual visits from Jordan's family, the two boys have a long history of suffering each other's company. Keith finds no explanation for Jordan's extreme lack of self-esteem in his parents--a plastic fantastic corporate mom and a "sensitive" executive dad who seems incapable of establishing communication with his son. Determined to look beneath shining family surfaces, he ultimately discovers a history of sexual abuse. Keith's outlook makes this first novel an interesting if imperfect read." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Jane Hamilton - Author of : The Short History of a Prince Paperback - 512 pages largeprint edition (April 1998) Random House Large Print; ISBN: 0375702229 "Gay Dramatic Novels; Walter McCloud was constantly eclipsed by those around him - his beautiful, talented friends, his flamboyant relatives, his golden- boy brother, Daniel. He was always the outsider, never the star. But the summer of 1972 was a turning point in the life of fifteen-year-old Walter. It was the time when he realized that his great passion for dance would never be matched by his talent; the time when he discovered the funny agony of first love; and the time when he watched his brother declining into a cruel, untimely death. It is only when, twenty-four years later, Walter returns to fight for the survival of his childhood Eden, his family's lakeside summer home, that he finally discovers a way to reconcile himself to the past in a way that gives hope for the future." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by E. Lynn Harris - Author of : And This Too Shall Pass Paperback - 347 pages (March 1997) Anchor; ISBN: 0385480318 "Gay Dramatic Novels; Zurich Robinson is a young black starting quarterback for an NFL expansion team who, after refusing the sexual advances of a local sportscaster, finds himself accused of her rape. Readers know he didn't do it, because he's staying celibate while he figures out his sexual identity, a process complicated by the fact that he's got two different men interested in him--one just for the sex, and one for the love. His defense attorney has romantic problems of her own. Luckily, his grandmother has enough faith-driven wisdom to see everybody through. Overall, And This Too Shall Pass isn't quite as engrossing as Harris's Invisible Life series, although fans of that book will be intrigued by Basil Henderson's supporting role here." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Scott Heim - Author of : Mysterious Skin Paperback - 285 pages Paperback Original (2 May, 1996) Black Swan; ISBN: 0552996688 "Gay Dramatic Novels; At the age of eight Brian Lackey is found bleeding under the crawl space of his house, having endured something so traumatic that he cannot remember an entire five-hour period of time. During the following years he slowly records details from that night, but these fragments are not enough to explain what happened to him, and he begins to believe that he may have been a victim of an alien encounter. Neil McCormick is fully aware of the events from the summer. Wise beyond his years, curios about his developing sexuality, Neil found what he perceived to be love and guidance from his baseball coach. Now, ten years later, he is a teenage hustler, a terrorist of sorts, unaware of the dangerous path his life is taking. His recklessness is governed by idealized memories of his coach, that unexpectedly change when Brian comes to Neil for help and, ultimately, the truth." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Chester Himes - Author of : Yesterday Will Make You Cry Paperback - 363 pages (February 1, 1999) W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN: 039331829X *~~ Featured Book Review ~~* "Gay Dramatic Novels; Yesterday Will Make You Cry, the story of a young man's brutal sojourn in prison, was first published in 1952 as Cast the First Stone. Author Chester Himes had intended to write a book based on his own prison experiences, but when publisher after publisher turned it down, Himes rewrote the text. He turned his third-person narrative into a first-person narrative, eliminated flashbacks, and toned down the sometimes poetic language. The revision became, so the new editors tell us, "a hard-boiled prison novel." Finally restored in the form of the original novel, Yesterday Will Make You Cry is the heartfelt book Himes would have had us read: it is occasionally brutal, always uncompromising, and sometimes harrowingly moving." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:

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