by Jack Dickson
A Lambda Literary Awards Finalist in 1993, this edition includes a new 2019 foreword by Frank W. Butterfield.
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The Unfinished by Jay B. Laws
Jiggs, a hearing-impaired gay man tortured by the recent death of his parents, moves into a long-vacant San Francisco apartment. The apartment is revealed to be haunted by the Unfinished, spirits whose lives ended prematurely through tragedy, violence or betrayal. Jiggs's initially adversarial relationship with his spectral housemates soon becomes a partnership when both parties see each other as instrumental to ending their own suffering. The stories unfold via visitations by three Dickensian ghosts offering accounts of their deaths. In one story, a man dying from AIDS confronts the limits of his vanity when he realizes the terrible price of his wish to recapture his looks. In another, a car mechanic's soul is left to ponder how his weakness led to his murder.
Laws’ second and final novel was published posthumously in 1993. This 2019 edition includes an introduction by Sasha Alyson, founder of the celebrated LGBT press Alyson Publications as well as a foreword by Greg Herren.
Buried on Sunday by Edward O. Phillips
A Geoffry Chadwick Misadventure, Book 2 - “One of the problems with weekends in the country” says Geoffry Chadwick's genial host in Buried on Sunday, “is that people feel free to drop in unannounced.” And drop in they do. No sooner has our loveable lawyer hero, a partner in the prestigious law firm of Lyall, Pierce, Chadwick and Dawson—who just happens to be gay—settled in with a spicy Bloody Mary, than hardened criminals on the lam burst in and take Chadwick and his hosts’ hostage in their own beautiful home.
A tale of mystery and suspense brims with human drama, both poignant and comic: It turns out that one of the other hostages, now married, had once been Chadwick's lover. As the hours of their forced confinement turn into days, a flood of bittersweet memories engulf Chadwick, of an affair whose painful end he could never forget, of a lover who had changed the course of his life. As the weekend moves toward its powerful denouement, Chadwick comes to terms with the road he has taken—and the quite different path, of marriage and convention, chosen by his early love.
First published in 1986, it won the coveted Arthur Ellis Best Novel Award from the Crime Writers of Canada. This 2019 edition contains a contemporary interview with Phillips on reception of his work and a reminiscence of Edward Phillips' 80th birthday celebration by Toronto author Nancy Wigston.
The Family of Max Desir by Robert Ferro
Max Desir loved his Italian-American family—even after his iron-willed father exiled him from its intimate inner circle. Max Desir loved his lover Nick, with whom he openly took up life first amid the enchantment of Rome, then amid the realities of New York. Two loves so deeply felt—in a man so painfully divided...
The second novel by Ferro, an original member of the New York writer's group Violet Quill, was published in 1984 when a new generation of gay authors were flexing their muscles and finding their voices. This edition includes a new 2019 foreword by Felice Picano.
The Genius of Desire by Brian Bouldrey
Hopelessly drawn to the romantic notion of a double life, young Michael Bellman spends summers in Monsalvat, Michigan, coming of age in a loving tangle of highly eccentric relatives: Great Uncle Jimmy speaks to his dead wife during meals; Cousin Anne torments Michael beyond endurance; reckless Cousin Tommy secretly smokes cigars and can’t wait to “kick butt in ’Nam”—and Michael watches every magical move he makes.
A few years and one driver’s license later, as family alliances change and long-silent desires surface, Michael begins to understand his attraction to the double life because he’s living one—at roadside rest stops, in library washrooms, and public parks. Coming out is the first step, coming to terms is the next....
A highly praised debut novel in 1993, this edition includes a new 2019 foreword by the author.
Dead on Your Feet by Grant Michaels
A Stan Kraychik Mystery, Book 3 — Boston's sassiest hairdresser faces a confusing mix of romance and murder in the world of ballet. Stan's streak of recent bad luck in romance seemed at an end when he became involved with ballet choreographer Rafik Panossian. But bad luck of a different sort dogs his steps when the founder of the ballet company is found brutally murdered and the company's young conductor (and Stan's possible rival for Rafik's affections) is the prime suspect.
A Lambda Literary Awards Finalist in 1994, this edition includes a new 2019 foreword by Charles Michaelson.
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