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Kink (Paperback)
R. O. Kwon, Garth Greenwell
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R225
Discovery Miles 2 250
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'This anthology of literary fiction features an all-star ensemble'
Cosmopolitan 'A reflective and must-read collection' Stylist Kink
is a groundbreaking anthology of literary short fiction exploring
love and desire, BDSM, and interests across the sexual spectrum,
edited by lauded writers R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell, and
featuring a roster of all-star contributors including Alexander
Chee, Roxane Gay, Carmen Maria Machado, and more. Kink is a dynamic
anthology of literary fiction that opens an imaginative door into
the world of desire. The stories within this collection portray
love, desire, BDSM, and sexual kinks in all their glory with a bold
new vision. The collection includes works by renowned fiction
writers such as Callum Angus, Alexander Chee, Vanessa Clark,
Melissa Febos, Kim Fu, Roxane Gay, Cara Hoffman, Zeyn Joukhadar,
Chris Kraus, Carmen Maria Machado, Peter Mountford, Larissa Pham,
and Brandon Taylor, with Garth Greenwell and R.O. Kwon as editors.
The stories within explore bondage, power-play, and
submissive-dominant relationships; we are taken to private estates,
therapists' offices, underground sex clubs, private estates, and
even a Victorian-era sex theater. While there are whips and chains,
sure, the true power of these stories lies in their beautiful,
moving dispatches from across the sexual spectrum of interest and
desires, as portrayed by some of today's most exciting writers.
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Kink - Stories (Paperback)
R. O. Kwon, Garth Greenwell
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R481
R365
Discovery Miles 3 650
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Cleanness (Paperback)
Garth Greenwell
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R424
R320
Discovery Miles 3 200
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Cleanness (Hardcover)
Garth Greenwell
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R469
R382
Discovery Miles 3 820
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Cleanness revisits and expands the world of Garth Greenwell's
beloved debut, What Belongs to You, declared 'an instant classic'
by the New York Times Book Review. In exacting, elegant prose,
Greenwell transcribes the strange dialects of desire, cementing his
stature as one of our most vital living writers. 'This is an
exceptional work of fiction, which places Greenwell among the very
best contemporary novelists.' - Independent Sofia, Bulgaria, a
landlocked city in southern Europe, stirs with hope and impending
upheaval. Soviet buildings crumble, wind scatters sand from the far
south, and political protesters flood the streets with song. In
this atmosphere of disquiet, an American teacher navigates a life
transformed by the discovery and loss of love. As he prepares to
leave the place he's come to call home, he grapples with the
intimate encounters that have marked his years abroad, each bearing
uncanny reminders of his past. A queer student's confession recalls
his own first love, a stranger's seduction devolves into paternal
sadism, and a romance with a younger man opens, and heals, old
wounds. Each echo reveals startling insights about what it means to
seek connection: with those we love, with the places we inhabit,
and with our own fugitive selves. Chosen as a book of the year in
the New Yorker, Daily Telegraph, Observer and Irish Times.
Startlingly erotic and immensely powerful, Garth Greenwell's What
Belongs to You tells an unforgettable story about the ways our
pasts and cultures, our scars and shames can shape who we are and
determine how we love. Winner of the Debut of the Year Award at the
British Book Awards. Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize. 'A
searching and compassionate meditation on the slipperiness of
desire . . . as beautiful and vivid as poetry' - Hanya Yanagihara,
author of A Little Life On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an
American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia's National
Palace of Culture. There he meets Mitko, a charismatic young
hustler, and pays him for sex. He returns to Mitko again and again
over the next few months, their relationship growing increasingly
intimate and unnerving. As he struggles to reconcile his longing
with the anguish it creates, he's forced to grapple with his own
fraught history: his formative experiences of love, his painful
rejection by family and friends, and the difficulty of growing up
as a gay man in southern America in the 1990s. 'Worthy of its
comparisons to James Baldwin and Alan Hollinghurst as well as
Virginia Woolf and W G Sebald . . . spellbinding' - Evening
Standard Longlisted for the National Book Award in Fiction. A
Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. A Finalist for the
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction.
Reinaldo Arenas was born to a poverty-stricken family in rural
Cuba. By the time of his death in New York four decades later, he
had become one of Cuba's most important poets, an outspoken critic
of Castro's regime and one of the leading gay voices of the
twentieth century. In Before Night Falls, Arenas tells of his
odyssey from young rebel fighting for the Revolution, through his
suppression as a writer, his disillusionment with Castro, his
imprisonment and torture, to his eventual exile from Cuba to New
York, where in 1987 he was diagnosed with AIDS. He committed
suicide in 1990, ending a life of constant struggle against
repression. In a farewell note, Arenas wrote: Due to my delicate
state of health and to the terrible depression that causes me not
to be able to continue writing and struggling for the freedom of
Cuba, I am ending my life ... I do not want to convey to you a
message of defeat, but of continued struggle and hope. Cuba will be
free. I already am. (signed) Reinaldo Arenas
Bulgaria’s capital, Sofia, stirs with hope and impending upheaval. Soviet buildings crumble, unrelenting winds lash the city, political protesters flood the streets with song.
Amid this disquiet, a young American teacher prepares to leave the place he’s come to call home. In a reflective mood, heightened by his imminent departure, he grapples with the intimate encounters that have marked his years abroad, each revealing startling insights about what it means to seek connection: with those we love, with the places we inhabit and with ourselves.
Written in precise, elegant prose, Cleanness is an almost unbearably poignant book about a man whose life, like so many, has been transformed by the discovery and loss of love.
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Mitko (Paperback)
Garth Greenwell
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R387
Discovery Miles 3 870
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Fiction. On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American newly
arrived in a foreign city pays a young man for sex. Over the next
months, as what at first seems an uncomplicated transaction deepens
into something more intricate and unnerving, his discovery of the
geography and griefs of an unfamiliar country is accompanied by the
unfolding of Mitko's own narrative, his private history of illness,
exploitation, and want. The story of a desire that grows
increasingly ambivalent, poised between submission, need, and
resentment, MITKO is a powerful meditation on the chances of
history and privilege, on mutual predation, and on our inability to
know with any certainty the natures of others or our own fugitive
selves.
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