Select Books with LGBTQ Themes for 2017
Sanders, whose first novel, Kamikaze Lust, won a 2000 Lambda Literary Award, offers an international espionage thriller in which a failed Olympic speed skater falls for her father's lover, a former Israeli army pilot turned corporate spy. The author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas follows the...
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| Published in: | Publishers Weekly 2017-05, Vol.264 (22), p.47 |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | Sanders, whose first novel, Kamikaze Lust, won a 2000 Lambda Literary Award, offers an international espionage thriller in which a failed Olympic speed skater falls for her father's lover, a former Israeli army pilot turned corporate spy. The author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas follows the life of the fictional Cyril Avery at seven-year intervals, from his post-WWII childhood through his sexual awakening at boarding school and the aftermath of Ireland's legalization of same-sex marriage in 2015. Minotaur, June Debut novelist Lepionka, who edits Betty Fedora, a journal that publishes feminist crime fiction, launches the Roxane Weary series, starring a bisexual private investigator. In this novelistic riff on feminist literary tropes, a teen mother, beset by custody disputes and homophobia, seeks a way out of poverty. Lambda Pioneer Award recipient Myles, whose many books include the autobiographical novel Chelsea Girls, received a Guggenheim fellowship to complete this fantastical memoir of life with a pit bull named Rosie. Roaring Forties, out now The lead plaintiffs in the successful legal battle against California's Proposition 8, which sought to ban same-sex marriage in the state, tell their story. PW's starred review called this story of a young bisexual British lord in... |
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| ISSN: | 0000-0019 2150-4008 |