Ergebnis für "The Hearts of Men" in Coming of Age

Willkommen am St. Gloria College, wo Ruhm und Reichtum auf seine angehenden Studierenden warten! Zwischen exklusiven Partys und gefährlichen Intrigen kämpfen hier die beiden Häuser Alpha und Omega um ein heiß begehrtes Stipendium, das ihnen die Tür zu einem Leben der Schönen und Reichen ermöglicht. Auch Felicia de Vries, ehrgeizig und fokussiert, hat es auf die akademische Auszeichnung abgesehen. Wenn da nur nicht Valentin Knight wäre.

Camp Chippewa, 1962. Nelson Doughty, age thirteen, social outcast and overachiever, is the Bugler, sounding the reveille proudly each morning. Yet this particular summer marks the beginning of an uncertain and tenuous friendship with a popular boy named Jonathan. Over the years, Nelson...

Over a period of thirty years, three gay men struggle to define themselves and make their mark on a turbulent and unwelcoming world that is so filled with anger that love has become a luxury. The townsfolk describe him as “prettier than a boy should be.” ELI APPLE is embarrassed by such remarks but soon learns to celebrate all the pleasures his beauty invites. He possesses the voice of an angel and the sound of his tender falsetto echoes throughout the green forests that surround his New England home.

From the winner of the Sahitya Akademi Young Writer Award and the Crossword Book Award for Fiction Shortlisted for The Hindu Prize for Literature 2015 ‘Explores with sharp beauty the mystery at the centre of loving anyone’ Sophie Mackintosh, author of The Water Cure How does the world see...