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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 David Leddick - Author of : My Worst Date Paperback - 272 pages 3 edition (March 1998) St. Martin's Press; ISBN: 0312181388 "General Gay Fiction Books; "Young man finding his way in a new sexual world" is a common theme in gay male fiction. But what about "young man finds himself working as a stripper, playing a featured part on a nighttime soap opera, and then dating his mother's boyfriend." Hugo, the hero of My Worst Date has a lot to learn about life, and, boy, is he learning fast. David Leddick's prose is charming and insightful, his characters are world-weary but still eager, and his sense of humor and empathy is on target. Set in the semi-mythical gay world of South Beach, Florida, My Worst Date is a romp with feeling that has some smart things to say." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Paul Lisicky - Author of : Lawnboy Paperback - 374 pages 1 edition (January 2000) Turtle Point Pr; ISBN: 1885983409 "General Gay Fiction Books; The adventure of seventeen-year-old Evan's life begins with mowing a neighbor's lawn, an ordinary chore that launches him into a world of desire, confusion, and betrayal. LAWNBOY is about the possibility of finding connection in a world of broken relationships and decaying motels -- the urban, artificial landscape of South Florida, as lush and troubling as Evan's imagination." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Michael Lowenthal - Author of : The Same Embrace Paperback - 289 pages (May 1999) Plume; ISBN: 0452279755 "General Gay Fiction Books; This moving and contemporary portrait of two brothers' estrangement and journey to reconciliation addresses the larger themes of family and sexual identity. It is the story of second-generation American Jews, identical twin brothers Jacob and Jonathan, who have chosen radically different lives. Jacob is a gay activist in Boston, while Jonathan lives the strict life of an Orthodox student at a Yeshiva in Jerusalem. Weaving together themes of sibling rivalry, assimilation, the Holocaust, and AIDS, The Same Embrace is a stunning debut novel that depicts a quintessentially American search for belonging." Click to buy this book in USA, UK:
	All Books by William J. Mann - Author of : The Men From The Boys Paperback - 352 pages Reprint edition (June 1998) Penguin USA (Paper); ISBN: 0452278562 *~~ Featured Book Review ~~* "General Gay Fiction Books; Jeff O'Brien--bright, good-looking, and inching dangerously past thirty--is caught between two generations, the Baby Boomers and Generation X. He's been with his partner, Lloyd, for seven years now, but when Lloyd announces that there's no passion left between them, Jeff is sent into something of an existential frenzy. Desperate not to end up alone, Jeff haunts the dance floor and roadside rest stops, finding both the sordid and the sublime in anonymous encounters. But it's love he's after, so ultimately it's his bittersweet romance in Provincetown with Eduardo, twenty-two and a vision of gorgeous, wide-eyed youth, that lingers in his mind and seems to hold the answers he seeks. This is a story of a man coming to terms with the accelerating ambiguity of his world, where men die young but old age is actively devalued. It is the story of gay life today, the life being led by thousands of men trying desperately to keep up--and to discover if anything really unites gay men other than desire. It is the story of how the truths of gay life are handed down from gay generation to gay generation. It is the story of what separates the men from the boys. The Men From the Boys has multigenerational appeal--the first novel to look at the stark dichotomy existing among different generations of gay men." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Jaime Manrique - Author of : Twilight at the Equator Paperback - 212 pages (June 1999) Unknown; ISBN: 1891305182 "General Gay Fiction Books; Colombian-born Santiago Martinez starts his adult life as a young gay writer living in Spain. Years later, as a university professor in New York City, Santiago is called back to his native Colombia upon the suicide of his sister. There he learns some shocking secrets about his childhood and adolescence and comes to the realization that cherished memories of the past are only illusion." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Jaime Manrique - Author of : Besame Mucho : New Gay Latino Fiction (New Gay Latino Fiction) Paperback - 248 pages (June 1999) Painted Leaf Pr; ISBN: 1891305069 "General Gay Fiction Books; Writer Manrique gathers, with coeditor Jesse Dorris, an eye-opening selection of exemplary stories by contemporary gay Latino men. These stories are edgy, confrontational, and non-apologetic. They are in-your-face when it comes to gay sexuality and face slapping in terms of the talent they showcase." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada:
	All Books by Jaime Manrique - Author of : Latin Moon in Manhattan (Stonewall Inn Editions) Paperback Reprint edition (February 1993) St. Martin's Press; ISBN: 0312088353 "General Gay Fiction Books; Santiago Martinez, a loner and would-be poet living in an Latino community in New York City, is surrounded by a cast of colorful characters--among them a midget hooker, a rich Venezuelan gourmand, a librarian from Alabama, and a crooning parrot." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Armistead Maupin - Author of : The Night Listener Paperback - 368 pages (September 18, 2001) Harper Perennial; ISBN: 006093090X "General Gay Fiction Books; Gabriel Noone forms a bond with a young, troubled listener to his late-night radio show. As Noone's friendship with the dying boy grows, he feels he can unlock his innermost feelings. But troubling questions arise, and he is forced to confront all his relationships - familial, romantic and erotic." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Armistead Maupin - Author of : Maybe the Moon : A Novel Paperback - 320 pages Reprint edition (August 1993) HarperCollins (paper); ISBN: 0060924349 "General Gay Fiction Books; Maybe the Moon, Armistead Maupin's first novel since ending his bestselling Tales of the City series, is the audaciously original chronicle of Cadence Roth -- Hollywood actress, singer, iconoclast and former Guiness Book record holder as the world's shortest woman. All of 31 inches tall, Cady is a true survivor in a town where -- as she says -- "you can die of encouragement." Her early starring role as a lovable elf in an immensely popular American film proved a major disappointment, since moviegoers never saw the face behind the stifling rubber suit she was required to wear. Now, after a decade of hollow promises from the Industry, she is reduced to performing at birthday parties and bat mitzvahs as she waits for the miracle that will finally make her a star. In a series of mordantly funny journal entries, Maupin tracks his spunky heroine across the saffron-hazed wasteland of Los Angeles -- from her all-too-infrequent meetings with agents and studio moguls to her regular harrowing encounters with small children, large dogs and human ignorance. Then one day a lanky piano player saunters into Cady's life, unleashing heady new emotions, and she finds herself going for broke, shooting the moon with a scheme so harebrained and daring that it just might succeed. Her accomplice in the venture is her best friend, Jeff, a gay waiter who sees Cady's struggle for visibility as a natural extension of his own war against the Hollywood Closet. As clear-eyed as it is charming, Maybe the Moon is a modern parable about the mythology of the movies and the toll it exacts from it participants on both sides of the screen. It is a work that speaks to the resilience of the human spirit from a perspective rarely found in literature." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Armistead Maupin - Author of : 28 Barbary Lane Hardcover - 768 pages (October 1990) HarperCollins; ISBN: 0060164662 "General Gay Fiction Books; Armistead Maupin's uproarious and moving Tales of the City novels--the first three of which are collected in the is omnibus edition--have earned a unique niche in American literature, not only as matchless entertainment, but as indelible documents of cultural change in the seventies and eighties. When originally serialized in the San Francisco Chronicle, Tales of the City (1978), More Tales of the City (1980) and Further Tales of the City (1982) afforded a mainstream audience of millions its first exposure to straight and gay characters experiencing on equal terms the follies of urban life. Among the cast of this groundbreaking saga are the lovelorn residents of 28 Barbary Lane: the bewildered but aspiring Mary Ann Singleton, the libidinous Brain Hawkins; Mona Ramsey, still in a sixties trance, Michael "Mouse" Tolliver, forever in bright-eyed pursuit of Mr. Right; and their marijuana-growing landlady, the indefatigable Mrs. Madrigal. Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads them through heartbreak and triumph, through mail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers. " Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:

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