Gay Short Stories, the Penguin Book of

by David Leavitt

Book Overview

These thirty-nine stories chronicle the gay experience over the course of the last century, beginning with the unarticulated longing of two boys swimming in D.H. Lawrence's "A Poem of Friendship" and ending with the explicit sexual interaction of two boys in a bathtub in A.M. Homes's "The Whiz Kids." In between there is every imaginable kind of gay story written by every imaginable kind of writer--gay and straight, male and female--all illuminating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 014024249X
• ISBN13: 9780140242492
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 688 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Creative and Beautiful Works

This book is filled with beautifully written short stories that will blow your mind away. Not like what I have read before. A must have.

A nice anthology

This anthology offers a cornucopia of gay writers--some notorious and others undiscovered. We are offered different perspectives on the gay experience, and the stories transgress not only time periods, but age groups as well. The writers are gifted in their writing techniques, creating characters that are identifiable yet anomalous. I would recommend this anthology for those who are new to gay literature.

A great resource!

This is an excellent collection of gay short fiction, many from the pre-Stonewall period of obscurity. With the current explosion of GLTB literature, a sequel is in order:)

39 Inteligent pieces of litrature - source of pride!

The anthology is an excellent book. The stories were not written exclusively by gay authors, and surprises are waiting for the readers (e.g. Noel Coward's beautiful story). The 39 stories are offered by well-known authors (e.g. Forster, Isherwood), known young authors (Leavitt, Kramer) and by those less known. In so introducing new and promising authors to the readers, Leavitt and Mitchell prove yet again that the distinguished house of Penguin made the right choice in selecting them as editors. RUN TO BUY!