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Alias Olympia, A Woman's Search for Manet's Notorious Model and Her Own Desire
• Eunice Lipton
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A fascinating glimpse into Victorian France through the lens of Manet's mysterious model.
(FRN220, $17.95)
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All About My Mother
• Pedro Almodovar
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A vivid and colorful slice of life about women, friendship and loss from the celebrated Spanish director Pedro Almodovar.
(SPN231, $29.95)
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At Swim, Two Boys
• Jamie O'Neill
• LITERATURE
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A haunting tale of love set against the huge backdrop of Irish politics and the events leading up to the 1916 Easter uprising.
(IRE120, $16.00)
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Audrey Hepburn's Neck, A Novel
• Alan Brown
• LITERATURE
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An exquisite short novel about contemporary Japan. This prize-winning work captures the eclectic, mixed-up society of contemporary Japan.
(JPN14, $20.95)
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Before Night Falls
• Reinaldo Arenas
• Delores Koch
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A deeply moving autobiography, highly critical of the Castro regime.
(CBA37, $15.00)
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Beth Chatto's Gravel Garden, Drought-Resistant Planting Through the Year
• Steven Wooster
• Beth Chatto
• NATURAL HISTORY
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British horticulturist Beth Chatto shows fellow green-thumbs how to get their flowers to bloom in gravelly, sandy soil.
(GRD01, $35.00)
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The Bostonians
• Henry James
• LITERATURE
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Henry James' satirical novel of the battle of the sexes set in 1870s Boston.
(BOS13, $20.00)
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C.P. Cavafy, Collected Poems
• C.P. Cavafy
• LITERATURE
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A collection of poems from one of the most highly regarded poets of 20th century poetry.
(GRE87, $19.95)
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Call Me by Your Name
• Andre Aciman
• LITERATURE
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Aciman captures the lazy, languorous days and nights on the Mediterranean in this gay coming-of-age story set on the Italian Riviera.
(ITL828, $23.00)
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Cleopatra's Wedding Present, Travels Through Syria
• Robert Tewdwr Moss
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A poignant memoir of travels in Syria in the series, Living Out: Gay & Lesbian Autobiographies, published by the University of Wisconsin.
(SYR14, $24.95)
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The Colossus of Maroussi
• Henry Miller
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• FAVORITE
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Miller captures the spirit and warmth of the resilient Greek people in this inspired tale of a wartime journey from Athens to Crete, Corfu and Delphi with his friend Lawrence Durrell.
(GRE05, $14.95)
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The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature
• Byrne Fone
• ANTHOLOGY
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A wide-ranging anthology drawing on diverse sources and genres.
(GEN14, $37.50)
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The Complete Claudine
• Colette
• LITERATURE
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A collection of four short novels about coming of age as a woman in turn-of-the-century France. Colette beautifully evokes period and place in this vivid portrait of Victorian Paris.
(FRN125, $20.00)
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Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
• Oscar Wilde
• LITERATURE
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A one-volume edition of all the works of Wilde, including stories, plays, poems, and essays.
(IRE35, $25.00)
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The Condor and the Cows, A South American Travel Diary
• Christopher Isherwood
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Isherwood's 1947 account of travels through South America.
(SAM64, $17.95)
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Confessions of a Mask
• Meredith Weatherby
• Yukio Mishima
• LITERATURE
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This powerful book is the story of the monk who burned the Temple of the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto. It's an unsettling portrait of society in Post-War Japan, and the coming of age of a complex, tragic figure who struggles with his homosexuality.
(JPN18, $12.95)
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Cracks in the Iron Closet, Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia
• David Tuller
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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An intimate portrait of an emerging gay subculture in modern Russia.
(RUS149, $15.00)
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Dirty Havana Trilogy
• Natasha Wimmer
• Pedro Juan Gutierrez
• LITERATURE
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A novel of contemporary Havana's steamy underbelly, originally published in Spain -- and banned in the author's native Cuba.
(CBA44, $14.95)
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The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris
• Edmund White
• LITERATURE
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The gifted novelist reveals his favorite haunts in this glittering portrait of Paris and its pleasures.
(FRN259, $12.99)
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Flaubert in Egypt
• Francis Steegmuller
• Gustave Flaubert
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Among the romantic European travelers in Egypt, Flaubert, via his letters and journal entries, stands out. The place inspired him, and his observations are still delightful reading.
(EGY12, $15.00)
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Forbidden Friendships, Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence
• Michael Rocke
• HISTORY
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A scholarly study of relations between men in 15th and 16th century Florentine society.
(ITL443, $29.95)
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Frank O'Hara, Selected Poems
• Mark Ford
• Frank O'Hara
• LITERATURE
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This astute compilation of uproarious, mocking poems, recalling the glamor of 1950s New York, includes The Day Lady Died, A Party Full of Friends and Having a Coke with You.
(NYC190, $30.00)
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Funny Boy
• Shyam Selvadurai
• LITERATURE
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Building a complex portrait through detail of family, society and place, this prize-winning novel is a gay coming of age story set in contemporary Sri Lanka. Splendidly written.
(SRL01, $14.00)
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Gay and Lesbian Studies in Art History
• Whitney Davis
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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Essays on gender, sexuality and the visual arts.
(GEN20, $39.95)
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Gay Cuban Nation
• Emilio Bejel
• LITERATURE
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An in-depth, scholarly study of homoeroticism in Cuban liteerature, film and society.
(CBA50, $22.00)
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Gay Travels in the Muslim World
• Michael Luongo
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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An anthology of gay writers on travels and experiences throughout the Muslim World.
(ISL72, $19.95)
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Greek Homosexuality
• Kenneth Dover
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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The classic history of homosexuality in ancient Greece.
(GRE66, $25.50)
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Hadrian, The Restless Emperor
• Anthony Birley
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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An up-to-date, scholarly biography.
(ITL260, $40.95)
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Hindoo Holiday, An Indian Journal
• J.R. Ackerly
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Ackerly traipses across India as the English tutor to a handsome and extravagantly homosexual maharajah in this comic, beautifully turned-out novel masquerading as a travelogue.
(IDA115, $14.00)
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Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia
• Dan Healey
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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Changing attitudes toward gay men and women in urban Russia, before and after 1917.
(RUS145, $45.00)
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The House by the Sea, A Journal
• May Sarton
• LITERATURE
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One of many journals by May Sarton, who moved from New Hampshire to live alone in a house on the seacoast of Maine. She writes beautifully on the topics of aging, solitude, nature, gardening, food, relationships, and of course, on life in coastal Maine.
(USE61, $14.95)
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In the Arms of Africa, The Life of Colin M.Turnbull
• Roy Richard Drinker
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A provocative, contentious, and romantic figure, Colin Turnbull charged into the limelight in 1961 with his best-selling "The Forest People, " a sympathetic account of the Mbuti pygmies. Roy Richard Drinker has written a mesmerizing biography of Turnbull, which captures the closed, homophobic scholarly culture of the day.
(AFR89, $17.00)
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Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History and Literature
• Stephen O. Murray
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A scholarly overview of homosexuality in medieval Egypt, Ottoman Turkey and beyond.
(ARB26, $22.00)
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A Journey in Ladakh
• Andrew Harvey
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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The vivid account of a 1981 journey by a young English poet in search of ancient Buddhist traditions in remote Ladakh.
(HML15, $18.95)
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Kali's Child, The Mystical and Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna
• Jeffrey J. Kripal
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A scholarly analysis of the life and thought of a 19th century Bengali mystic and modern saint.
(IDA112, $32.00)
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Keep the River on Your Right
• Tobias Schneebaum
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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The haunting, lyrical diary of a young man's experiences in the Peruvian rain forest.
(AMZ11, $12.50)
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Kiss of the Spider Woman
• Manuel Puig
• LITERATURE
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The psychological story of a friendship between two Argentinean prisoners jailed for their subversive activity: Molina, a transgendered homosexual and Valentin, a socialist revolutionary.
(ARG28, $13.95)
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Land's End, A Walk In Provincetown
• Michael Cunningham
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A brief, loving portrait of Provincetown, the town at the very tip of Cape Cod, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours.
(USE254, $16.95)
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The Last Avant-Garde, The Making of the New York School of Poets
• David Lehman
• LITERATURE
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An enjoyable, high spirited account of artistic friendship and collaboration between four poets of the New York School: John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch and James Schuyler.
(NYC75, $16.95)
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Love in a Different Climate, Men Who Have Sex with Men in India
• Jeremy Seabrook
• RELIGION
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Sexual identify and politics in India.
(IDA113, $25.00)
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Machos, Maricones and Gays: Cuba and Homosexuality
• Ian Lumsden
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A history and analysis of homosexuality in Cuba, attitudes and issues.
(CBA90, $30.95)
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Mama Day
• Gloria Naylor
• LITERATURE
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A glorious novel populated by the vibrant inhabitants, especially the women, of Willow Springs -- a fictional barrier island off the Atlantic coast between Georgia and South Carolina.
(USS23, $13.95)
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Marks of Identity
• Juan Goytisolo
• Gregory Rabassa
• LITERATURE
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Banned under Franco, this is the story of a man struggling to get along without love for his country or himself. The author has written a number of novels concerning Spain on the periphery of the Western and Islamic worlds.
(SPN25, $15.00)
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Marsden Hartley, The Biography of an American Artist
• Townsend Ludington
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A biography of the troubled American modernist painter.
(USE185, $22.50)
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A Meeting by the River
• Christopher Isherwood
• LITERATURE
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Two brothers meeting in India, one a bisexual capitalist and the other a Hindu monk.
(IDA114, $16.95)
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Memoirs of Hadrian
• Marguerite Yourcenar
• LITERATURE
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A beautifully written, powerful novel, which takes the form of letters by Roman Emperor Hadrian (A.D. 76-138) to Marcus Aurelius.
(GRE133, $15.00)
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Oscar Wilde
• Richard Ellman
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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The definitive, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Oscar Wilde. A vivid picture both of his flamboyant life and his tremendous literary accomplishments.
(IRE33, $22.00)
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Our Caribbean, Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles
• Thom Glave
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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(CRB224, $24.95)
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Paradiso
• José Lezama Lima
• Gregory Rabassa
• LITERATURE
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A baroque masterpiece by Cuba's greatest poet.
(CRB128, $14.50)
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Passions of the Cut Sleeve, The Male Homosexual Tradition in China
• Bret Hinsch
• LITERATURE
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A well-written, scholarly survey of the traditions of same-sex male love in Chinese literature.
(CHN167, $21.95)
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Pictures and Passions, A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts
• James M. Saslow
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A survey of homoerotic images through the ages.
(ART29, $20.00)
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The Poetry of Michelangelo: An Annotated Translation
• James M. Saslow
• LITERATURE
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A scholarly, richly informative selection of Michelangelo's writing.
(ART30, $26.00)
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Queer in Russia: A Story of Sex, Self, and the Other
• Laurie Essig
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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An engaging, scholarly portrait of post-perestroika gay culture.
(RUS146, $22.95)
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Queer Sites, Gay Urban Histories Since 1600
• David Higgs
• HISTORY
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A scholarly history of the gay subculture in London, Amsterdam, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, Paris, Lisbon and Moscow.
(WLD32, $36.95)
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Roman Sex: 100 BC - AD 250
• John R. Clarke
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An authority on life in ancient Rome John Clarke explores Roman erotic literature, art and attitudes toward sex and sexuality in this frank, fascinating book. With hundreds of color photographs of mosaics, frescoes, vases, sculpture and other art depicting diverse sexual practices.
(ITL758, $35.00)
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Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
• John Boswell
• HISTORY
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Same-sex rituals from ancient times through the Middle Ages.
(EUR51, $16.95)
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The Sexual Revolution in Russia, From the Age of the Czars to Today
• Igor Kon
• HISTORY
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A groundbreaking, fascinating history of sex, sexuality and attitudes in Russia.
(RUS147, $25.50)
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Singing from the Well
• Reinaldo Arenas
• LITERATURE
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A poignant novel of coming of age in rural Cuba.
(CBA51, $15.00)
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Strawberry and Chocolate
• Juan Carlos Tabio
• Tomas Gutiérrez
• LITERATURE
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The heartwarming story of three neighbors, daily life and intellectual seduction in contemporary Havana.
(CBA68, $19.99)
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Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation, A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties
• Noel Riley Fitch
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A vivid portrait of life among intellectual expatriates in post-WWI Paris.
(FRN92, $21.95)
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The Vagabond
• Colette
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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A colorful portrait of life in the music halls of early 20th-century Paris. Poetic and lucid, Colette's written depiction of a French dancer/mime is based on her own experiences.
(FRN127, $10.95)
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Voices of Modern Greece, Selected Poems
• Edmund Keeley
• Philip Sherrard
• ANTHOLOGY
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A selection of works by modern masters of Greek verse, edited and translated by two noted scholars.
(GRE97, $23.95)
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Where the Spirits Dwell
• Tobias Schneebaum
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A lyrical account of four years among the headhunters of Asmat, a classic, highly personal portrait of a people. Schneebaum threw himself into the culture -- and this beautiful, haunting book was the result.
(INS23, $12.95)
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Women of the Left Bank, Paris 1900-1940
• Shari Benstock
• HISTORY
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A well-researched and insightful look at important women in the Lost Generation.
(FRN98, $34.95)
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Wonderlands, Good Gay Travel Writing
• Raphael Kadushin
• ANTHOLOGY
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A diverse collection of modern writers on places, people and mostly gay travels.
(TVL36, $19.95)
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