The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories

by Leavitt, David; Mitchell, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780140242492
• ISBN10: 014024249X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-12-01
• Publisher: Penguin Group USA

Summary

Thirty-nine stories from the turn of the century to the age of AIDS illuminate the common ground of the gay male experience--and its astonishing diversity. Written by an array of men and women, both gay and straight, this collection includes some exciting never-before published pieces. "Superb".--Lambda Book Report.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xv
A Poem of Friendship	1	(8)
D. H. Lawrence
Arthur Snatchfold	9	(15)
E. M. Forster
Sally Bowles	24	(48)
Christopher Isherwood
Me and the Girls	72	(37)
Noel Coward
From My Father and Myself	109	(22)
J. R. Ackerley
May We Borrow Your Husband?	131	(29)
Graham Greene
Hands	160	(6)
Sherwood Anderson
The Teacher of American Business English	166	(12)
James Kirkup
From Falconer	178	(32)
John Cheever
From the Folded Leaf	210	(11)
William Maxwell
Servants with Torches	221	(13)
Donald Windham
Jimmy	234	(12)
Desmond Hogan
Torridge	246	(20)
William Trevor
Some of These Days	266	(9)
James Purdy
From A Glass of Blessings	275	(15)
Barbara Pym
Reprise	290	(14)
Edmund White
Dramas	304	(9)
Edna O'Brien
``Mrs. Tefillin''	313	(29)
Larry Kramer
Spunk	342	(5)
Paul Bailey
The Times as It Knows Us	347	(47)
Allen Barnett
The Princess from Africa	394	(21)
David Plante
Adult Art	415	(25)
Allan Gurganus
The Cinderella Waltz	440	(19)
Ann Beattie
Good with Words	459	(7)
Stephen Greco
Nothing to Ask For	466	(15)
Dennis Mcfarland
Ignorant Armies	481	(15)
Michael Cunningham
Run, Mourner, Run	496	(20)
Randall Kenan
Six Fables	516	(8)
Bernard Cooper
Perrin and the Fallen Angel	524	(16)
Peter Wells
My Mother's Clothes: The School of Beauty and Shame	540	(17)
Richard Mccann
A Place I've Never Been	557	(15)
David Leavitt
Notes Towards a Performance of Jean Racine's Tragedy Athalie	572	(4)
Neil Bartlett
Buried Treasure	576	(18)
Gary Glickman
Self-Portrait in Twenty-three Rounds	594	(5)
David Wojnarowicz
Jump or Dive	599	(13)
Peter Cameron
Gentlemen Can Wash Their Hands in the Gents'	612	(9)
Christopher Coe
The Dancing Lesson	621	(8)
Gerry Albarelli
A Real Doll	629	(18)
A. M. Homes
The Whiz Kids	647
A. M. Homes