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Patrick, fabulously wealthy and with a good eye for pictures and young men, brings the impressionable Nicholas to London, intent on reducing him to utter dependence by playing on his naivety and greed. But Nicholas proves to be not quite as pliable as hoped, and a witty social comedy develops as he struggles with the web that Patrick has so richly woven for him.
43) Pembroke Park
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When Lady Joanna Sinclair meets Lady Diana March, on horseback and clad in male attire, she is outraged by such bizarre and unacceptable behavior. Still, she is irresistibly drawn to the headstrong Diana, under whose influence she asserts her independence from her arrogant and overbearing brother, Hugo. But in England's regency period, to love one's own sex was a risk taken only by the most daring.
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A novelization of the life of the 16th Century playwright, Christopher Marlowe, portraying him as a spy for Elizabeth I's government in its war with Catholics. Lots of color on Elizabethan London, the court, the intrigues, the theater, the slums. The author's last book before his death, it comes 30 years after his Nothing Like the Sun, a novel on Shakespeare.
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An English student is so impressed by a book of philosophy that he travels to France to meet its author, now in an insane asylum. In describing the relationship which grows up between the two men, the novel looks at the bonds that are created between reader and writer, even though they never meet. A first novel.
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A homosexual affair in 1920s England between two 20-year-olds from different backgrounds. One is an aristocrat, the other a lowly store clerk. The affair develops into a roman a trois, both men falling for the aristocrat's manservant. A look at homosexuality in the days when one had to keep it a secret. By the author of Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall
47) Cactus
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"Cactus is a novel about four women, how they affect each other, how they struggle to survive. As her daughters grow up, Bea begins to reassess her marriage, her youth, her likely future as a superfluous middle-aged, middle class woman. Ann and Dee are lesbian feminists trying, against formidable odds, to make a world in which they would be at home. Eleanor, finding herself drawn into relationships with the others, sees her painfully acquired independence...
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"In England, Lieutenant Jennifer Kincade is on her first assignment as a U.S. Army nurse, newly married to a man she isn't sure she loves. Then she meets sexy, charming Maggie Conover. Maggie, a journalist adventurer for American newspapers, is irresistibly drawn to the beautiful, dark-haired Jenny. Jenny, unable to fathom her attraction the free-spirited Maggie, follows the road her curiosity takes her.... Into an eroticism she has never known before....
49) Brother Cain
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Expelled from school, advised to leave university, and forced to resign from the army, Captain Jacinth Crewe has precious few options open to him. For a man in his position, an approach to join a sinister British Government security organisation, with a training centre in Rome, is not an opportunity to be turned down. In Rome, he learns fast how to be ruthless. There is one final mission to complete his training however - to kill an American diplomat...
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"Written on the Body is a love story. And it is, like all Winterson novels, a philosophical meditation, this time on the body: the body as physical phenomenon - blood and bones and organs - and the body as repository of our emotions and souls. The object is a married woman named Louise, and the narrator of the story is her lover, gender undeclared. At once ambiguous and riveting, the narrator's consciousness powers the reader beyond the need to identify...
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Now a major motion picture: A deliciously wicked and amusing tale of a cranky curmudgeon investigating strange goings-on at an English country house ( The New York Times ). I've suffered for my art, now it's your turn. So begins the story of Ted Wallace, unaffectionately known as the Hippopotamus. Failed poet, failed theater critic, failed father and husband, Ted is a shameless womanizer, drinks too much, and is at odds in his cranky but maddeningly...
52) Father's Day
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Matthew Vaber’s life has just taken a turn for the worse. His father has killed himself—a tragedy for which he feels bitterly responsible, when he lets himself feel much of anything about it at all—and his thrilling but damaged mother has taken center stage yet again. Into this cocktail of familial mayhem, Matthew tosses a bubbling new ingredient: the Pump Line, New York’s tawdriest phone sex service, where men appear and disappear with the...