Buddies: A Continuation of the Buddies Cycle: 2 - Softcover

Mordden, Ethan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312010052 ISBN 13: 9780312010058

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, 1987

Synopsis

"What unites us, all of us, surely is brotherhood, a sense that our friendships are historic, designed to hold Stonewall together, " muses one character in Ethan Mordden's "Buddies." This need for friendship, for nonerotic affection, for buddies, shines forth as an American obsession from "Moby-Dick" through "Of Mice and Men" to "The Sting." An American gay life has built upon and cherished these relationships, even as it has dared - perhaps its most startling iconoclasm - to break new ground by combining romance and friendship: one's lover is one's buddy.

This book is about those relationships - mostly gay but some straight and even a few between gays and straights. Here also are fathers and brothers and stories of men in their youth, when rivalry often develops more naturally than alliance. In "Buddies" Mordden continues to map the unstoried wilderness of gay life today.

About this title

Review:

"[This viewer has] considerable admiration for the collection." --The New York Times Book Review

"There are too few writers who can turn a phrase with as much wit and style as Ethan Mordden. You are dealing with an unusually major talent." --Torso

"Undeniable an outstanding gay writer, with Manhattan to the Pines as his turf." --Kirkus

About the Author:

Ethan Mordden is the author of dozens of books, both fiction and nonfiction. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker and numerous other magazines and journals. He lives in Manhattan.

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0312010052
• ISBN 13: 9780312010058
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260