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41) Pryor rendering
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Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
The friendship of two young homosexuals united by their alienation from the rest of the community. The community is Pryor, a bleak company town in Oklahoma where people work for a rendering factory, that is making fertilizer from animal leftovers.
45) Horse crazy
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Pub. Date
1989
Description
"This story, if it is one, deserves the closure of a suicide, perhaps even the magisterial finality of what is usually called a novel, but the remnants of that faraway time offer nothing more than a taste of damp ashes, a feeling of indeterminacy, and the obdurate inconclusiveness of passing time." So writes the unnamed narrator of Horse Crazy, looking back on a season of madness and desire. The first novel from the brilliant, protean Gary Indiana,...
48) Firestorm
Author
Pub. Date
1984
Description
Matt Justin seems to have it all: dedication, good looks, perfect body, beautiful wife and a son, but he knows he doesn't really have it all. His marriage was a mistake, his own deepest passions and needs have been burried for too long, and are now struggling to escape. When he found his love and when a new minister and his family move to Willow Glen, he realized how destructive a Bible-thumping preacher can be.
49) David inside out
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
At a Minneapolis high school, a cross-country runner tries to deny his sexual feelings for a male teammate.
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"The Line of Beauty" is a sharp social critique of British high society set in the 80's during Margaret Thatcher's reign as prime minister. Alan Hollinghurst has a keen eye for the shallow frailties of human nature and how wealth -- particularly the pursuit of it -- can make a fool of someone.
Author
Pub. Date
[1984]
Description
At 42 handsome, endowed Gunnar Lindquist has apparently achieved success in life. Married, healthy, respected in his own field, wise in the ways of the world, he nonetheless feels a mysterious need for something more, something different. Attracted to certain men, he has fended off their advances since army days but now be cannot resist doing some indiscreet flaunting and to allow himself to be seduced. Gunnar "comes out" and after deliberate experimentation...
55) Christopher
Author
Series
B. K. Troop novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2003.
Description
"Unemployed, middle-aged, bipolar, gay, bitingly witty, erudite, unattractive, and lonely, B. K. Troop, the narrator of Christopher, isn't exactly looking forward to a life of exciting prospects - until he meets his new neighbor. Christopher Ireland is a twenty-five-year-old idealist and aspiring novelist still reeling from a bitter divorce. Even though B.
"Christopher recounts B.K.'s yearlong attempt to consummate his lust, with hilarious results....