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The Boys in the Band by Crowley, Mart, Kushner, Tony ""Boys" can still hold its own . . . Mart] Crowley's point is about how the humor is shaped and defined by the pain."-"The New York Times" "The Boys in the Band" was the first commercially successful play to reveal gay life to mainstream America. Alyson is proud to release a special fortieth anniversary edition of the play, which includes an original preface by acclaimed writer Tony Kushner ("Angels in America"), along with previously unpublished photographs of Mart Crowley and the cast of the play/film. Mart Crowley's other plays include the autobiographical "A Breeze from the Gulf" (1973) and "The Men from the Boys" (2002).

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The Age of Dreaming by Revoyr, Nina ""The Age of Dreaming" is a masterpiece of the sort that doesn't just seduce the reader-it leaves you transformed. Nina Revoyr deserves to be counted among the top ranks of novelists at work today."-Jerry Stahl, author of "I, Fatty" "This is a riveting, wise, and gorgeous novel."-Mary Yukari Waters "Brilliant and original. . . . The carefully restrained voice of its narrator recalls Ishiguro's "The Remains of the Day,""-Alison Lurie, Pulitzer Prize winner Jun Nakayama was a silent film star in the early days of Hollywood, but by 1964, he is living in complete obscurity-until a young writer, Nick Bellinger, reveals that he has written a screenplay with Nakayama in mind. Jun is intrigued by the possibility of returning to movies, but he begins to worry that someone might delve too deeply into the past and uncover the events that led to the abrupt end of his career in 1922. These events include the changing racial tides in California and the unsolved murder of his favorite director, Ashley Bennett Tyler. "The Age of Dreaming" is part historical novel, part mystery, and part unrequited love story. Nina Revoyr was born in Tokyo to a Japanese mother and a Polish-American father, and grew up in Japan, Wisconsin, and Los Angeles. She is the author of two previous novels, "The Necessary Hunger" and "Southland," which was a Book Sense 76 pick, winner of the Ferro-Grumley and Lambda Literary awards, a finalist for an Edgar Award, and one of the "Los Angeles Times"' "Best Books of 2003." She lives and works in Los Angeles.

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Becoming a Woman: A Biography of Christine Jorgensen A fascinating biography of the highly-publicized male-to-female sex change recipient, Christine Jorgensen, and the impact she had on changing attitudes toward gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered persons.