Examines ten years in the lives of Michael, Chris, and Drew, college pals--two straight and one gay--who face the choices and boundaries of adulthood. By the author of The Best Man. 10,000 first printing.

Good Boys: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Reidinger, Paul

United States

Plume

Intimate Evil

Random House Value Publishing

Originally published in 1986, Paul Reidinger's first novel concerns three friends in their twenties -- he, she and he -- who find themselves caught up in a design for living that breathes the spirit of the 1980s. David and Katherine meet as undergraduates and soon are best friends. In the ordinary course of events, they would become lovers. But there's a hitch -- he's gay. Adjusting to this with surprising aplomb, they go on as best friends, and after graduation move to San Francisco to share an apartment, and to look for a right man for each of them. Unfortunately, unbeknownst to the other, each finds the same Mr. Right in the person of Ross, a third-year law-school student. What follows is a comedy of the new manners that manages to be funny and credible, and an unconventional love story that manages to be credible and very touching.

The Best Man

Dutton Adult

Examines ten years in the lives of Michael, Chris, and Drew, college pals--two straight and one gay--who face the choices and boundaries of adulthood. By the author of The Best Man. 10,000 first printing.

Good Boys

Dutton

Best Man

Alyson Books

Seventeen-year-old Jason McGuire is on death row for the murders of his brother and father. When his case comes up for appeal, Jason refuses to assist in his own defense, saying he killed them because "he felt like it". But Bryan Delafield, his lawyer, believes there's something behind the murders, and he is drawn closer to the truth and to Jason.

Gay, 40, and less than satisfied with the state of his current life, G uy Griffith arrives in San Francisco like many before himyas a refugee from some intimacy gone disastrously wrong in the huge nation east of the bay. When he meets sixteen-year-old Doug Whitmore on a ridge over looking a nude beach, he surrenders with pleasure to the boy's radiant adolescent energy. Guy doesnFt yet understand how deeply rooted DougF's hurts and confusions are, nor how dangerous they might come to be, a nd he is not entirely willing to admit, even to himself, how susceptib le he is to the fugitive attraction that he and Doug both feel. DougFs identity problems, while common in adolescents, are exacerbated by a father who presents a violently homophobic persona to his family and f riends but engages in dangerous sexual trysts with male strangers when his homosexual urges become too strong to subdue.

The City Kid

Contemporary

Harrington Park Press

Fiction. Gay/Lesbian Studies. New to SPD. A second novel by Bay Area writer Paul Reidinger, whose first novel, The Best Man, was named one of the best novels of 1986 by the American Library Association. In THE CITY KID, he presents Guy Griffith -- gay, 40, and less than satisfied with the current state of his life. He comes to San Francisco like many before him - as a refugee from some intimacy gone disastrously wrong in the huge nation east of the bay. When he meets sixteen-year-old Doug Whitmore on a ridge overlooking a nude beach, he surrenders with pleasure to the boy's radiant adolescent energy. Guy doesn't yet understand how deeply rooted Doug's hurts and confusions are, nor how dangerous they might come to be, and he is not entirely willing to admit, even to himself, how susceptible he is to the fugitive attraction that he and Doug both feel.

The City Kid (Gay Men's Fiction)

Southern Tier Editions/Haworth Press

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Good Boys: A Novel

Intimate Evil

The Best Man

Good Boys

Best Man

Intimate Evil

The City Kid

The City Kid (Gay Men's Fiction)