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 The
Night Listener CD
by Armistead Maupin
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Few storytellers in America write with such unerring
insight and honesty as Armistead Maupin. Now he has given us his
most ambitious and daringly imaginative work, The Night Listener,
a novel as spoken-word serial, including an original musical score.
Gabriel Noone is a fabulist, a writer whose
late-night radio tales have brought him into the homes of millions.
In the midst of a painful, unwanted separation from his longtime
love, Gabriel reads the extraordinary memoir of Pete Lomax, an
ailing thirteen-year-old boy who suffered horrific abuse at the
hands of his parents. Pete is not only a gifted diarist but also a
devoted listener of Gabriel's show. And thus begins an extraordinary
phone friendship.
Then, out of the blue, troubling new questions arise,
exploding Gabriel's comfortable assumptions and causing his ordered
existence to spin wildly out of control. As he walks a vertiginous
line between truth and illusion, he is finally forced to confront
all his relationships -- familial, romantic, and erotic.
This unprecedented audio project is as
thought-provoking as it is mesmeric. The Night Listener is a
meditation on the power of voices and the faith we place in them,
and an extraordinary audio experience from an American literary
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Invisible Life
by E. Lynn Harris
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Invisible Life is the story of a young man's coming of age. Law
school, girlfriends, and career choices were all part of Raymond
Tyler's life, but there were other, more terrifying issues for him
to confront. Being black was tough enough, but Raymond was becoming
more and more conscious of sexual feelings that he knew weren't
"right." He was completely committed to Sela, his longtime
girlfriend, but his attraction to Kelvin, whom he had met during his
last year in law school, had become more than just a friendship. No
matter how much he tried to suppress them, his feelings were deeply
sexual.
Fleeing to New York to escape both Sela and Kelvin, Raymond finds
himself more confused than ever before. New relationships--both male
and female--give him enormous pleasure but keep him from finding the
inner peace and lasting love he so desperately desires. The horrible
illness and death of a friend force Raymond, at last, to face the
truth.
Invisible Life has been hailed as "one of the most thought-provoking
books--since James Baldwin's Another Country" (Richmond Voice), and
Harris's "stories have become the toast of bookstores, reading
groups, men, women, and gay and straight people" (Atlanta
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Gay Mysticism: Ecstasy and Transfiguration Through Divine Love
by Andrew Harvey
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Of the world's true mystics -- seekers who achieve direct union with
God -- a staggering proportion have lived and loved as gay men and
women. On Gay Mysticism, scholar Andrew Harvey illuminates the lives
and loves of these mystical outsiders. Drawing from many sources,
Harvey uncovers the rich and long hidden history of our most
important gay mystics, including the Sufi poet Rumi, the American
poet and social worker Walt Whitman, the English essayist Edward
Carpenter, Plato, and others. Here is the never-before-told story of
these "spiritual adventurers", framed by the most ecstatic and
hallucinatory love poetry the world has ever known.
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