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KIRKUP, James

Literature & Fiction

Oxford Univ. Pr.

Heaven, hell and hara-kiri: The rise and fall of the Japanese superstate

Angus and Robertson

I, of all people: An autobiography of youth

Weidenfeld and Nicolson

Japan behind the fan

Travel

Asia

Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.

White shadows, black shadows: Poems of peace and war

Poetry

J.M. Dent & Co

Moving and humorous as well as uninhibited in its homo-erotic exposures, this recounts the author's disaffections with England and subsequent experiences in Sweden and then in Spain, where he falls passionately in love with a young American man. Kirkup is a distinguished poet who has spent much of his life teaching in Japan. It is the idea of the homosexual, like the poet, seeking impossible beauty in dark places that is at the core of this funny and sometimes painful work."" - Sunday Times.

A Poet Could Not but Be Gay: Some Legends of My Lost Youth

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Peter Owen Ltd

Adventures of the gay Major Hilary Sitfast and his nymphomaniac cousin Miss Lorelei Thrillingly, out and about in modern Tokyo. The Major runs a small but profitable English language school. Lorelei wants to investigate the inscrutable East which, she feels, must be as extreme"" as herself. This hilarious novel explores the seedier side of Tokyo life. The author, a distinguished poet, spent many years teaching in Japan.

Gaijin on the Ginza: A Novel

British & Irish

<div>A satirical fantasy set in 2001 and centred on a mysterious offshore island, a futuristic version of Shakespeare's The Tempest.</div>

Queens Have Died Young and Fair

Peter Owen Publishers

James Kirkup’s fifth volume of autobiography, Me All Over, describes his escape from England when his love affair with a young man comes to an end. His invitation to teach English literature in Japan is the start of a long and passionate love/hate affair with the country.

Me All Over

A work of remarkable imagination and insight; never before has such an extraordinary description of what it is to be blind been written. Guibert writes about the blind with virtuosity, entering into their minds and bodies and seeing the inner and outer worlds of their confined existence. This produces a strange penetration into hallucinated sensual confusion, in which colors are sounds and sounds are objects. These nightmarish phantasms of the blind culminate in a gruesome crime de passion.

Blindsight: A Novel

Guibert, Hervè

Genre Fiction

George Braziller, Inc.

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