Sydney Skate has dubbed himself "Shockproof": He decoded his mother's gossip with her glamorous lesbian girlfriends at age eight (but has never let on to her that he knows she's gay). He easily shrugs off his father's demands to skip college and join him in the exciting world of swimming pool sales for suburbanites. During his summer days, he deftly cares for snakes at the local pet shop. And he has memorized the sex scenes of every book he's ever read in order to better seduce women. Nothing, however, has prepared Sydney for his mother sweeping Alison Gray, the girl of his dreams, off her feet. Witty and perceptive, Sydney's coming-of-age story has been a classic of lesbian literature since it was first published in 1973. It was a Literary Guild Alternate and a Book Find Club Selection. Hailed as the Catcher in the Rye for the seventies, Shockproof Sydney Skate exposes the confusion of its time and remains keenly relevant to the sexual absurdities of today.

Shockproof Sydney Skate

Literature & Fiction

Meaker, Marijane

Contemporary

HarpPeren

A mystery set in the Hamptons featuring a transgendered detective.

Scott Free: A Crime Novel

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Carroll&Graf

Transgender insurance investigator Scotti House gets caught up in a kidnapping plot among the rich in the Hamptons.

Scott Free

Adams Media

Patricia Highsmith, author of such classics as The Talented Mr. Ripley and Strangers on a Train, was a writer who defied simple categorization. Gore Vidal called her: "One of the greatest modernist writers." The Cleveland Plain Dealer rightly commented: "Patricia Highsmith is often called a mystery or crime writer, which is a bit like calling Picasso a draftsman." To young novelist Marijane Meaker, however, Highsmith was more than a role model. Shortly after the two met in a New York City lesbian bar, they became lovers and embarked on a two year romance amidst the bohemian set of Greenwich Village and the literary crowd of Fire Island. There, the pair navigated the underground lesbian scene, lunched with literary stars like Janet Flanner, shared intimacies, and gossiped with abandon. Written with wit and brassy candor, Highsmith: A Romance of 1950s is a revealing look at the controversial icon of popular American fiction.

Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950's

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Cleis Press

Meine Jahre mit Pat: Erinnerungen an Patricia Highsmith

History & Criticism

Diogenes Verlag AG

Highsmith. Una storia d'amore degli anni Cinquanta

Sellerio Editore Palermo

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