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Betwen Men 2: Best Gay Fiction

Second volume in an Anglo-American gay shorter fiction collection series, with recent stories by eighteen eminent contributors, including Alan Hollinghurst, Andrew Holleran, Mark Merlis, Jim Grimsley and Patrick Gale. The editor’s 11000-word ‘Afterword’ reviews the state of gay male fiction writing in English, including critical readings of these eighteen authors’ oeuvres and extensive contextualising material. It identifies a number of key themes, from the politics of gender and race, to class, regionalism, health concerns and sexual ethics, also providing a historical overview, and discussing the wide range of formal approaches found in contemporary gay male fiction in the Anglophone world.