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Can I read The Penguin book of gay short stories on EtoBox?
The Penguin book of gay short stories by Leavitt, David, 1961-; Mitchell, Mark is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Penguin book of gay short stories about?
This is an anthology of stories that, in the words of its co-editor David Leavitt, "illuminate the experience of love between men, explore the nature of homosexual identity, or investigate the kinds of relationships gay men have with each other, with their friends, and with their families." It is not a collection of stories written exclusively by gay authors; indeed, readers may be surprised to discover that some of their favorite women writers and straight male writers have also explored the territory. What the stories do share is a refusal to ghettoize gay men as denizens of the gay nocturnal subculture. The men in these stories live very much in the world; their sexuality, though an important aspect of their lives, doesn't singularly define them . The thirty-nine stories brought together here suggest the ways in which gay experience has - and hasn't - changed over the course of this century, starting with the tender, unarticulated longings of two boys swimming in D. H. Lawrence's "A Poem of Friendship" and ending with the explicit sexual interaction of two boys in a bathtub in A. M. Homes's "The Whiz Kids." In between there is every imaginable kind of gay story, as offered by we
Who reads The Penguin book of gay short stories?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Leavitt, David, 1961-; Mitchell, Mark
- Publisher
- London : Penguin
- Published
- 1994
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780140167238
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories
- Rating
- 4.14 / 5 (11 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14