What Love is

The Second Arcadia Book of Gay Short Stories
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-906413-83-5
Verlag: ARCADIA

Buch, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 135 mm x 215 mm, Gewicht: 329 g

With contributors from America, Australia, Britain and Canada and contributors from Royston Ellis who is based in Sri Lanka, New Yorker Lawrence Schimel, who lives in Madrid, and the late John Haylock, who spent much of his time in the Far East, What Love Is could be described as an international collection. Scott Brown's title story is a disturbing interior monologue by a distressed young man returning to his home somewhere in the Middle East and sets the tone for a collection which includes new stories from veteran Francis King, multi-award winning Ronald Frame and Harper Collins' bestselling, Patrick Gale. Food writer and television chef Richard Cawley has penned a new story, as has Royston Ellis, an influence on John Lennon, making a return to fiction after a long absence. Neal Drinnan contributes an uncharacteristically humorous story. American novelist Joseph Olshan contributes an evocative tale of fervid youth and Ian Young has supplied another of his tales of life in North London in the seventies. What Love Is includes stories that are disturbing and distressing, sinister and sweet, humorous and exciting and sometimes, perhaps, even autobiographical.
It is a collection that diverts and entertains whilst also provoking thought.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burton, Peter

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Burton has edited seven previous anthologies of gay short stories, four of which were Lambda Literary Award finalists. His other books include a biography of Rod Stewart, Parallel Lives (a memoir), Talking to - (a collection of interviews) and Amongst the Aliens (a collection of essays). He is the former literary editor of Gay News and Gay Times, currently has a book column in Beige and regularly reviews for the Daily Express and is the literary coordinator of the Clifton Montpelier Powis Festival in Brighton, England, where he lives.