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Now showing — Reading from Giovanni's Room and Another Country · 5 works
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One of the most important works of gay literature, this haunting, brilliant novel is a seriocomic remembrance of things past -- and still poignantly present. It depicts the adventures of Malone, a beautiful young man searching for love amid New York's emerging gay scene. From Manhattan's Everard Baths and after-hour...
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The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman.
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A professor's fall from grace in post-apartheid South Africa. Power, shame, and transformation.
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A Sudanese man returns from England. Colonialism reversed as seduction and destruction.
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Held here because it strengthens the visible field.
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