Author:Mark Mitchell,David Leavitt,Mark Mitchell,David Leavitt
The diversity - and unity - of gay love and experience in the twentieth century is celebrated in this acclaimed anthology, which includes twenty-one stories from the original collection, published in 1994, together with fifteen new stories. The texts range from the tender unarticulated longings of D.H. Lawrence's A Poem of Friendship to the explicit sexual. Writers include both men and women, gay and straight, amongst them: John Updike, Edna O'Brien, E.M. Forster, Annie Proulx, William Trevor and Edmund White.
Adam Haslett is a wonderful rarity. You're likely not only to love his stories but to feel stronger for having read them
—— Jonathan Franzen, author of 'The Corrections'Adam Haslett possesses the rare ability to combine powerful narrative with sensitive and perceptive observations of people and places. You Are Not a Stranger Here is a brilliant beginning to a literary career
—— Barry UnsworthAdam Haslett's tone is one of delicate, understated heartache... He never lets the reader forget that he is shining an unflinching light on those types of human suffering that cannot be cured, only endured
—— Sunday TimesEnormously moving... Haslett's writing is harrowing, morbidly funny and deeply erotic
—— Independent on SundayAdam Haslett arrives from out of nowhere sounding like a master
—— Jay McInerneyA profound knowledge of the cultures of Mittel-europa, of the literatures of France, the United States and Britain translated into Buenos Aires vernacular, gives Cozarinsky's narratives a fiery intellectual strength and a powerful originality
—— Alberto Manguel