Best American Gay Fiction
Series: The Best American Gay Fiction Series , Vol 1
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: September 1, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780316103176
Subjects: Fiction anthologies & collections; Literature of special Gay interest; Modern fiction; Short stories; Fiction - General; Fiction; Gay; Short Stories (Anthologies); Fiction / Gay; Fiction-Short Stories (Anthologies); Gay men's writings, American; General; 20th century; American fiction; Gay men; Men authors; Short stories, American; Social life and customs; United States
First sentence: HE TAKES A LOCKER when he gets to the baths - after driving faster than usual to put sixty miles between himself and Becker quickly - though he knows this disappoints; mature men, he suspects, are expected to bring money - take a room - while the young need merely a five-dollar locker, their beauty being their contribution.
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Following the success of last year's debut volume, this Best American Gay Fiction collection broadens the range of contributors, styles, and genres. Here is outstanding new work by such well-known writers as Andrew Holleran, Dale Peck, Michael Nava, and David Wojnarowicz alongside fresh talents who capture the full spectrum of gay life today -- African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans. The impressive writing presented here -- all drawn from works published in 1996 -- reflects this diversity as well, and ranges from coming-of-age narratives to reflections on growing older, from edgy 'zine fiction to elegant tales wrought with lapidary precision.

Unified only by their excellence, these twenty-one selections are resounding proof of yet another banner year for gay fiction.