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The books in the general gay fiction section have a huge range of themes. Everything from outrageously funny comic stories, to biographical style novels. Basically any gay fiction book that couldn't be put strictly into drama, romance, short stories and the like, was placed in these pages. Enjoy your browsing!

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	All Books by Donald Rawley - Author of : The Night Bird Cantata Amazon.co.uk Only Paperback - 277 pages (17 August, 1998) Flamingo; ISBN: 0006551084 "General Gay Fiction Books; It is 1968 and ten-year-old LP wants to be a glamorous woman in sunglasses. Instead, he has a negligent mother, a cruel grandmother, a kindly black nursemaid and a set of friends, with whom he teeters on the edge of sexuality and knowledge of the darker corners of adult life." Click to buy this book in UK:
	All Books by Bino A. Realuyo - Author of : The Umbrella Country Paperback - 298 pages (March 1999) Ballantine Books (Trd Pap); ISBN: 0345428889 "General Gay Fiction Books; On the tumultuous streets of Manila, where the earth is as brown as a tamarind leaf and the pungent smells of vinegar and mashed peppers fill the air, where seasons shift between scorching sun and torrential rain, eleven-year-old Gringo strives to make sense of his family and a world that is growing increasingly harsher before his young eyes. There is Gringo's older brother, Pipo, wise beyond his years, a flamboyant, defiant youth and the three-time winner of the sequined Miss Unibers contest; Daddy Groovie, whiling away his days with other hang-about men, out of work and wilting like a guava, clinging to the hope of someday joining his sister in Nuyork; Gringo's mother, Estrella, moving through their ramshackle home, holding her emotions tight as a fist, which she often clenches in anger after curfew covers the neighborhood in a burst of dark; and Ninang Rola, wise godmother of words, who confides in Gringo a shocking secret from the past--and sets the stage for the profound events to come, in which no one will remain untouched by the jagged pieces of a shattered dream. As Gringo learns; shame is passed down through generations, but so is the life-changing power of blood ties and enduring love. In this lush, richly poetic novel of grinding hardship and resilient triumph, of selfless sacrifice and searing revelation, Bino A. Realuyo brings the teeming world of 1970s Manila brilliantly to life. While mapping a young boy's awakening to adulthood in dazzling often unexpected ways, The Umbrella Country subtly works sweet magic." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by John Rechy - Author of : City of Night Paperback Reissue edition (March 1988) Grove Press; ISBN: 0802130836 "General Gay Fiction Books; When John Rechy's explosive first novel--now a classic--appeared in 1963, it became a national best-seller and ushered in a new era of gay fiction. Bold and inventive in his account of the urban underworld of male prostitution, Rechy is equally unflinching in his portrayal of one hustling "youngman" and his search for self-knowledge within the neon-lit world of hustlers, drag queens, and men on every kind of make. As the narrator moves from El Paso to Times Square, from Pershing Square to the French Quarter, we get an unforgettable look at life on the edge." Click to buy this book in USA or UK:
	All Books by Geoffrey Rees - Author of : Sex with Strangers Hardcover - 245 pages (November 1993) Farrar Straus & Giroux; ISBN: 0374261652 "General Gay Fiction Books; Thomas leaves his rural home to go to university in Chicago, where he finds himself awed by both the city and the seeming sophistication of his fellow students, and for the first time encountering both love and death. - Further review: As he struggles to locate his feelings and to come to terms with love and sex, a young gay man engages in several ill-fated, passionate relationships." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Matthew Rettenmund - Author of : Boy Culture Paperback - 192 pages (February 1997) St. Martin's Press; ISBN: 0312145535 "General Gay Fiction Books; A wise-cracking, cynical gay prostitute finds himself falling in love with his muscular, sexually confused roommate, while his other roommate, a teenage playboy, begins falling in love with him." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Matthew Rettenmund - Author of : Blind Items Paperback - 288 pages (June 2000) Griffin Trade Paperback; ISBN: 0312262957 "General Gay Fiction Books; Matthew Rettenmund's 1994 fiction debut, Boy Culture, was a surprise smash hit: a funny, playful, endearing slice of life from the late-20-something Chelsea crowd in Manhattan's fast lane. Rettenmund is also a cataloguing connoisseur of media and culture who has produced such fare as Totally Awesome 80s. His second novel, Blind Items, combines his twin passions of pop culture and boy romance. David Greer is an unwilling editor of a chain of gay male porn magazines who would rather be a famous novelist. His best friend is the noted gossip-meister Warren Junior, whose "Off the List" column consistently roasts the talks of the town. One evening, at a party by Warren's invitation, David meets the love of his life: the kind, intelligent, and hunky TV star Alan Dillinger. One problem: David is determinedly out and political, while Alan is deeply closeted. Readers will delight in Rettenmund's ease with the chatty, relaxed aspects of relationships, relating how one handles safe sex and jealousy control in a world where talking about Tab Hunter and Raymond Burr constitutes real communication. Rettenmund may not take himself seriously, but beneath the faux-glamour and the high wit, he manages to tell a story about real men with real emotions that has real lasting power. - Michael Bronski (Amazon.com)" Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Robert Rhodes - Author of : Nonstop Neurotic Cabaret Paperback - 150 pages (1998) Gay Men's Press; ISBN: 085449278X "General Gay Fiction Books; The adventures of an English student going crazy on a year's exchange in Iowa City, the hero has green hair, drug problems, a penchant for black magic and a bestial room mate." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Robert Rodi - Author of : Bitch Goddess Paperback - 288 pages (March 2002) Plume; ISBN: 0452283108 "General Gay Fiction Books; In Bitch Goddess, Robert Rodi turns his riotous wit on Hollywood sex and stardom. Told entirely through interviews, e-mails, fan magazine puff pieces, film reviews, shooting scripts, greeting cards, extortion notes, and court depositions, this is a hilarious account of the on-again, off-again career of Viola Chute, the B-grade sex symbol who slept her way to the middle-and slid downward from there. After making a big comeback on a nighttime soap, Viola decides it's time to pen her memoirs. But when E. Manfred Harry, her ghostwriter, turns up some serious dirt, the bitch goddess fires him. The ever-resourceful Harry turns the book into an unauthorized tell-all biography, and Viola's star once again begins its descent..." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Robert Rodi - Author of : Drag Queen Paperback Reprint edition (November 1996) Plume; ISBN: 0452273447 "General Gay Fiction Books; A gay, urban professional's life is thrown upside down when he finds out he has a twin brother who is a drag queen, a discovery that begins a hilarious saga of musical numbers, leather-bar trysts, and mistaken identities." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Robert Rodi - Author of : Kept Boy Paperback - 336 pages Reprint edition (November 1997) Plume; ISBN: 0452273455 "General Gay Fiction Books; The author of Fag Hag and Drag Queen once again delivers a fabulous, unforgettable farce. Having made a career of deconstructing the denizens of the modern gay world, Robert Rodi now turns his hand to--and twists the knife in--yet another gay archetype: the kept boy." Click to buy this book in USA, UK:
	All Books by Robert Rodi - Author of : Fag Hag (Plume Fiction) Paperback - 296 pages Reissue edition (January 1993) Plume; ISBN: 0452269407 "General Gay Fiction Books; Natalie loves Peter, a commercial artist who is on the prowl for his Mr Right. Peter loves women as well as men, and to Natalie's dismay, Peter sees her more as sidekick than siren. Natalie has managed secretly to poison all Peter's romances by drawing out the nightmare side of each new dreamboat." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:

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