Belletristik

Eileen Myles erzählt ungeschönt und unverblümt davon, wie es war – damals in New York – als alles möglich schien, als Warhol jedem 15 Minuten Berühmtheit versprach, als Allen Ginsberg noch zu deiner Buchpremiere kam, wenn du ihn einludst, als noch alle mit allen im Bett gelandet sind, und es immer irgendjemanden gab, der Alkohol oder ....

In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms their life into a work of art. Suffused with alcohol, drugs, and sex; evocative in its depictions of the hardscrabble realities of a young queer artist's life; with raw, flickering stories of awkward love, laughter, and discovery, Chelsea Girls is a funny, ....

Eine Frau erzählt von ihrer Familie, die weder Sprache noch Heimat gemeinsam hat und durch die Wirren der deutschen und chinesischen Geschichte der 20. Jahrhunderts ihre Identität sucht.

Hedwig Dohm beendet mit Christa Ruland (erschienen 1902) ihre Romantrilogie: „In drei Romanen wollte ich drei Frauengenerationen des 19. Jahrhunderts schildern, deren Repräsentantinnen, den Durchschnitt zwar überragend, doch Typen ihrer Zeit sein sollten. Ich wollte sie schildern, aufsteigend aus dem ersten Dämmer des Morgengrauens der ....

Woman. Witch. Myth. Mortal. Outcast. Lover. Destroyer. Survivor. CIRCE.In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. Circe is a strange child – not powerful and terrible, like her father, nor gorgeous and mercenary like her mother. Scorned and rejected, Circe grows up in the shadows, at home ....

Blake Maslin is a doctor. In an alternate America marked by volatile class warfare, he and his twin daughters are taken captive by armed men demanding urgent medical care.In an isolated desert compound, the family encounter a collective of people suffering from an unknown and deadly disease. They appear sickly yet possess unnatural ....

A triangle with a twist, Coming Home is the story of three good people caught up in an impossible situation. Rob, a charismatic ex-fighter pilot severely disabled with MS, has been steadfastly cared for by his wife, Jan, for many years. Quite by accident one day, Terry, a young writer/postal carrier, enters their lives and turns it upside ....

If there's one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it's that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. With this money he can help his mom, who works two jobs while his dad's in prison.Life's not perfect, but with a fly ....

Wenn zwei Papageien sich in die Lüfte schwingen, von da nach dort flattern, hier und dort ein wenig schauen, dem bunten Treiben unter sich zusehen, dann das Strandleben, die Bars, die Strasse ins Visier nehmen, kurz, das Leben auf Erden beobachten, sich dann niederlassen, die Federn ordnen, sich anblicken, vielleicht ganz kurz den Kopf ....

Jack Sheppard - a transgender carpenter's apprentice - has fled his master's house to become a notorious prison break artist, and Bess Khan has escaped the draining of the fenlands to become a revolutionary mastermind. Together, they find themselves at the center of a web of corruption leading back to the dreaded Thief-Catcher General ... ....

The sequel to the groundbreaking novel, Margins and Murmurations, transfeminist speculative fiction. This standalone title introduces us to a post-revolutionary state with new contradictions and problems.Time has moved on and the City is no longer a place where queer folk live in fear or face expulsion. The forest, once burned to ....

A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems in the prevailing style. She also has dreams: of being seduced by a throng of older women, of kissing a friend in a dorm-room closet. But the dreams are private, not real.One night, she meets another woman at a bar, and an escape hatch ....