Plume fiction

The 29 stories in the volume range from the daring and erotic "Eat" by Sapphire to Dorothy Allison's energetic Southern tale "A Lesbian Appetite" to Valerie Miner's suspenseful "Trespassing." Whether its the joy or loss of love, the difficulty of family relations, or the pain of death, these stories bring to life the unique lesbian experience.

From Amazon.com: An immediate cult sensation when it was first released in 1992, Fag Hag gave birth to a genre that later reached mainstream popularity in "Will and Grace." Long out of print, the novel finally returns to shock and delight a whole new generation. Natalie Stathis is a big, flamboyant girl with a big, obsessive crush on a gorgeous gay artist, Peter Leland. She’s managed to become his best friend and constant companion, and gleefully uses her influence over him to poison every one of his budding romances—on the principle that when he’s run through all the men in town, it’ll finally be her turn. But when Peter finds true love in the unlikely arms of Lloyd Hood—a taciturn, gun-toting survivalist—none of Natalie’s usual plots and stratagems can separate them. She’s forced to throw caution to the wind and discretion out the door, and begin a campaign to win back her man that is actively, even dangerously, criminal. Brazenly irreverent, hilariously caustic, and grippingly suspenseful, Fag Hag is a novel you won’t easily forget. "Absorbing and powerful...Larger-than-life...A one-two punch of outrageous humor and sobering pathos...Succeeds admirably both as satire and as flat-out entertainment." - New York Native

Introduction One: The River Plate Horacio Quiroga: The Dead Man Julia Cortázar: Axolotl Armonía Somers: Waiting for Polidoro Jorge Luís Borges: The Circular Ruins Juan Carlos Onetti: The Dog Will Have Its Day Adolfo Bioy Casares: The Idol Manuel Puig: Relative Humidity 95% Two: Chile Isabel Allende: Toad's Mouth Three: Brazil Jorge Amado: The Miracle of the Birds Murilo Rubião: The Ex-Magician from the Minhota Tavern Clarice Lispector: Love Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis: The Psychiatrist Moacyr Scliar: The Plagues João Guimarães Rosa: The Third Bank of the River João Ubaldo Ribeiro: It Was a Different Day When They Killed the Pig Lygia Fagundes Telles: The Corset Rubem Fonseca: Lonelyhearts Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes: Twice with Helena Four: Mexico Carlos Fuentes: The Doll Queen Juan Rulfo: Luvina Five: The Caribbean Rosario Ferré: The Gift Reinaldo Arenas: Bestial Among the Flowers Ana Lydia Vega: Story-Bound Gabriel García Márquez: The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship Guillermo Cabrera Infante: The Phantom of the Essoldo Alejo Carpentier: Journey Back to the Source

Repackaged to tie-in with hardback publication of 'The Reavers' and to appeal to a new generation of George MacDonald Fraser fans, 'The Pyrates' is a swashbuckling romp of a novel. The Pyrates is all the swashbucklers that ever were, rolled into one great Technicoloured pantomime – tall ships and desert islands, impossibly gallant adventurers and glamorous heroines, buried treasure and Black Spots, devilish Dons and ghastly dungeons, plots, duels, escapes, savage rituals, tender romance and steaming passion, all to the accompaniment of ringing steel, thunderous broadsides, sweeping film music, and the sound of cursing extras falling in the water and exchanging period dialogue. Even Hollywood buccaneers were never like this.

The book is a collection of several short stories, describing the struggles of growing up, which Del, the protagonist is confronted with. The book is a description of the initiation she is undergoing through out the process of turning from a girl to a woman.

Les rebondissements d'un crime commis dix ans auparavant. Un roman criminel exemplaire admirablement construit et maîtrisé. SDM