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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 Doug Guinan - Author of : California Screaming Hardcover - 304 pages (June 1998) Simon & Schuster; ISBN: 0684849364 "General Gay Fiction Books; Making it big in Los Angeles can mean a lot of things. For Kevin Malloy it means landing the biggest catch of all among the city's many eligible homosexual bachelors. For media mogul Brad Sherwood, the most eligible of all, it means having power, wealth, success, good hair plugs, and even love." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Allan Gurganus - Author of : Plays Well With Others Paperback - 368 pages Reprint edition (February 1999) Random House; ISBN: 0375702032 "General Gay Fiction Books; With great narrative inventiveness and emotional amplitude, Allan Gurganus gives us artistic Manhattan in the wild 1980s, where young artists--refugees from the middle class--hurl themselves into playful work and serious fun. Our guide is Hartley Mims Jr., a Southerner whose native knack for happiness might thwart his literary ambitions. Through his eyes we encounter the composer Robert Christian Gustafson, an Iowa preacher's son whose good looks constitute both a mythic draw and a major limitation, and Angelina "Alabama" Byrnes, a failed deb, five feet tall but bristling with outsized talent. These friends shelter each other, promote each other's work, and compete erotically. When tragedy strikes, this circle grows up fast, somehow finding, at the worst of times, the truest sort of family. Funny and heartbreaking, as eventful as Dickens and as atmospheric as one of Fitzgerald's parties, Plays Well with Others combines a fable's high-noon energy with an elegy's evening grace. Allan Gurganus's celebrated new novel is a lovesong to imperishable friendship, a hymn to a brilliant and now-vanished world." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Allan Gurganus - Author of : The Practical Heart: Four Novellas Hardcover: 322 pages (September 18, 2001) Publisher: Knopf; ISBN: 0679437630 *~~ Featured Book Review ~~* "General Fiction; 2002 Lambda Award Winner for Gay Fiction - Allan Gurganus's voice--by turn bawdy and serene, folkloric and profane--deepens as it soars into this quiet masterwork. Four new fables--rich in event, comedy, experience--surge with the force of history's headlines versus sidestreet human fortitude. Improbable heroes and heroines spiral outward from Gurganus's familiar Carolina terrain. Each fires into a wild and differing direction, all in quest of some fantasy that's practically impossible. These characters' quixotic missions prove mysterious, often even to themselves. Their legacies are not easily deciphered. And yet, their most impractical wishes soon become the heartiest facts about each. They manage to wrest battle-courage from everyday indecision. Out of superstition and convention, they lift certainty. They each find a wealth of consoling truths banked--immortal--in the all-too-human heart. Allan Gurganus's great powers--announced more than a decade ago by Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All--here achieve a yearning exuberance worthy of a new Whitman. These leaps of sexual longing, empathy, and faith become a major new gift from this essential fablemaker. " Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by P. P. Hartnett - Author of : Call Me Paperback: 183 pages (February 1998) St. Martin's Press; ISBN: 0312180632 "General Gay Fiction; Gay male fiction has long had the reputation of being simply about sex, a charge that is untrue, even when sex is the main topic of the story. P-P Harnett's Call Me, which was released in England in 1996 to critical acclaim and a hailstorm of outrage, is certainly riddled with sex. Liam begins to answer personal ads to find out (or so he tells himself) about the type of person who places them. He quickly becomes obsessed with the ads, his respondents, and new sexual experiences. But while Call Me is graphically sexual, it also addresses what it means to be a gay man looking for human contact in the maelstrom of the AIDS epidemic. Harnett has a winning, breezy style and a perverse sense of humor, but the power of the book resides in his ability to convey the sheer desperation that people feel--not about sex, but about the desire to make sense out of their lives, their feelings, and their desires." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Andrew Holleran - Author of : The Beauty of Men Paperback - 288 pages Reprint edition (June 1997) Plume; ISBN: 0452277744 "General Gay Fiction Books; The story of Mister Lark, a middle-aged homosexual who has deserted the gay culture of New York to face the essential questions of the human condition. Andrew Holleran is the author of "Dancer From the Dance"." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Andrew Holleran - Author of : Dancer from the Dance : A Novel Paperback Reprint edition (September 1988) New American Library Trade; ISBN: 0452261295 "General Gay Fiction Books; One of the most important works of gay literature, this haunting, brilliant novel is a seriocomic remembrance of things past -- and still poignantly present. It depicts the adventures of Malone, a beautiful young man searching for love amid New York's emerging gay scene. From Manhattan's Everard Baths and after-hours discos to Fire Island's deserted parks and lavish orgies, Malone looks high and low for meaningful companionship. The person he finds is Sutherland, a campy quintessential queen -- and one of the most memorable literary creations of contemporary fiction. Hilarious, witty, and ultimately heartbreaking, Dancer from the Dance is truthful, provocative, outrageous fiction told in a voice as close to laughter as to tears." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Alan Hollinghurst - Author of : The Folding Star Paperback - 320 pages Reissue (6 April, 1995) Vintage; ISBN: 0099476916 "General Gay Fiction Books; In self-imposed exile in an ancient Flemish city, an embittered 33-year-old language tutor, Edward Manners, falls in love with his alluring 17-year-old pupil, Luc Altidore. As Edward pursues the elusive object of his infatuation--and plunges into affairs with two other men--this book interweaves past and present, history and memory, into a tapestry of unfulfillable desire" Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Richard House - Author of : Bruiser Paperback - 192 pages (21 May, 2002) Serpent's Tail; ISBN: 1852427477 "General Gay Fiction Books; Elegiac and lyrical, Bruiser is the story of a love between two men wary of emotional commitment. Adrian fends for himself as a waiter, boxer and hustler until he meets Paul, a lonely British expatriate old enough to be his father. Rejecting their lives in Chicago, they embark together on a road trip to Brazil. On the journey, they both find that they cannot abandon the fear of intimacy." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Charles G Hulse - Author of : In Tall Cotton Paperback - 320 pages (March 2002) Kensington Pub Corp; ISBN: 0758201214 "General Gay Fiction Books; In this sensual, beautifully written coming-of-age tale, debut novelist Charles Hulse transports readers to a time when radios crackled with the sounds of Benny Goodman and the Dorsey Brothers, when ice cream was a rare, hand-churned treat, when destitute farm folk traversed Route 66 in search of elusive property, and nobody ever talked about the things a sexually precocious teenage boy might encounter along the way... Sandwiched in the back seat of a Model A Ford, between his older brother and baby sister, Totsy Woods has, in a sense, seen it all - from a dusty Ozark farm to the golden cities of the California coast; from sun-parched Albuquerque to the bright lights and flooded streets of Phoenix. Yet even schoolyard games with other curious boys could never have prepared him for the passionate, strangely exhilarating journey that unfolds against the backdrop of the Depression Era American Southwest. Now, his forbidden stirrings - shrouded in layers of shame and guilt - force Totsy to face a difficult lesson about growing up and being a man...on his own terms." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:

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