false 26766 4 0 male New York City 1944/02/22 351464 449189 0349108382 9780349108384 7 <![CDATA[Like People in History]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174870658m/449189.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174870658s/449189.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/449189.Like_People_in_History 3.79 43 26766 3.70 246 45 1995 628863 1555836992 9781555836993 0 <![CDATA[The Lure]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176484011m/628863.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176484011s/628863.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/628863.The_Lure 4.07 15 In 1979, Felice Picano rocketed to fame with the publication of this shocking, controversial thriller. Riveting and candid in its depiction of the gay sexual subculture of the era, and praised by Stephen King as "Explosive...Felice Picano is one hell of a writer," The Lure thrusts young widower Noel Hathaway into a dark universe of physical and psychological violence; an unwilling lure used by the police to unmask an elusive killer.

Felice Picano is the author of 18 books, including the international best-sellers The Book of Lies and Like People in History as well as the acclaimed literary memoirs Ambidextrous, Men Who Loved Me, and A House on the Ocean, A House on the Bay. He has been nominated for several Lambda Literary Awards and is a recipient of the Ferro-Grumley award for fiction. Formerly a longtime New Yorker, he currently resides in Los Angeles.

]]> 26766 3.70 246 45 1979 628870 1555837417 9781555837419 3 <![CDATA[Onyx]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176484014m/628870.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176484014s/628870.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/628870.Onyx 3.64 14 Onyx is one of Picano's best books, a consistently interesting story recounted in flexible, detailed prose, flowering now and then into luminous descriptive passages that rival the work of the best American novelists. --Regina Marler ]]> 26766 3.70 246 45 2001 628861 1560234423 9781560234425 1 <![CDATA[Men Who Loved Me]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176484009m/628861.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176484009s/628861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/628861.Men_Who_Loved_Me 3.46 13 26766 3.70 246 45 1989 215461 1555835929 9781555835927 4 <![CDATA[The Book of Lies]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172775743m/215461.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172775743s/215461.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/215461.The_Book_of_Lies 3.38 13 Like People in History, will appeal to his increasing readership in much the same way as a box of Belgian chocolates, a self-indulgent but harmless extravagance. Ross Ohrenstedt, a resourceful and well-read young academic teaching a single summer literature course at UCLA, manages to get permission to examine and catalog the papers of Damon Von Slyke, a member of the infamous Purple Circle of gay writers active in the 1960s and 1970s (and roughly modeled on Picano's own literary group, the Violet Quill Club, which includes Andrew Holleran and Edmund White). Piecing together the various drafts of Von Slyke's many books, and trying to identify the handwriting in the margins, Ross eventually stumbles on a fascinating manuscript by an unknown writer--a man virtually erased from literary history--who seems to have been intimately connected to all the members of the Purple Circle. Picano's baroque eye for detail and his invariably rich and luscious male characters (most of whom speak in complete, highly articulate sentences that would put Gore Vidal to shame) set the sometimes silly, but no less enjoyable, tone for this well-paced academic mystery. --Regina Marler ]]> 26766 3.70 246 45 1998 712598 1560234385 9781560234388 2 <![CDATA[Ambidextrous: The Secret Lives of Children]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177548554m/712598.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177548554s/712598.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/712598.Ambidextrous_The_Secret_Lives_of_Children 4.10 10 26766 3.70 246 45 1985 712601 0786718137 9780786718139 4 <![CDATA[Art and Sex in Greenwich Village: A Memoir of Gay Literary Life After Stonewall]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/712601.Art_and_Sex_in_Greenwich_Village_A_Memoir_of_Gay_Literary_Life_After_Stonewall 3.78 9 26766 3.70 246 45 2007 712595 1560234407 9781560234401 1 <![CDATA[A House on the Ocean, a House on the Bay]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177548538m/712595.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177548538s/712595.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/712595.A_House_on_the_Ocean_a_House_on_the_Bay 3.67 9 26766 3.70 246 45 1997 1638388 1563332795 9781563332791 0 <![CDATA[Dryland's End]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1638388.Dryland_s_End 4.33 6 In a time of intergalactic peace and faster-than-light travel, a group of intelligent cybernetic servants rebel against their creators using a cyber-virus that could lead to the mass extinction of humans and near-human species. Now the governmental ruling party of the known systems—the Matriarchy—must find a solution, at any cost and by any means. Tension mounts as political factions across the known systems use this current crisis to attempt to overthrow the Matriarchy itself.

Filled with subterfuge, compassion, and unexpected surprises, Dryland's End takes you on a journey to worlds of wonder and excitement. The story begins as a Species Ethnologist named Ay'r Kerry Sanqq is sent to a previously unexplored human-populated planet to find his nearest living relative. What he finds is friendship, danger, intrigue, and new hope for the future. Meanwhile, the leader of the Matriarchy—Wicca Eighth—has become embroiled in a battle not only to keep humans alive but to keep her sovereignty alive as well.

Also involved in this high-stakes game of life and death are elements such as

the incredibly wealthy Hesperians who wish to undermine the Matriarchy, led by the devious Lord Mart Kell and unwavering Captain Diad.
Councilor Gemma Guo-Rinne, Sector Health Councilor for the Matriarch, whose past comes back to haunt her as she searches for the cure
North Taylor Diad—Hesperian and Captain, he is caught in the middle of two warring parties as he spies for one and loses his heart to another
Cray 12,000—an intelligent Cyber who has come into near-human awareness, he is the leader of the Cyber-rebellion and fighting for the freedom of his people

This book is a science-fiction adventure with social significance for the new millennium. Originally published in 1995 by Sunset Books Inc, Dryland's End is a little-known milestone in the career of Felice Picano, the father of gay literature. Dryland's End touches on many of today's controversial subjects, such as interracial relationships, cloning, and homosexual pairings, and views them with a lens toward the future. Harrington Park Press is proud to bring this extraordinary work back to print.

]]> 26766 3.70 246 45 1995 628868 0299209105 9780299209100 3 <![CDATA[Fred in Love]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176484013m/628868.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176484013s/628868.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/628868.Fred_in_Love 3.00 6 But when an acquaintance brought his female cat to be serviced by Fred, an entire new set of experiences opened up for the cat-and for Picano, who'd never had the nerve to befriend her owner, his ideal man. The course of love seldom runs straight for cats or for men, and this time would prove (hilariously) no different.
This is another of Picano's distinguished portraits of a vanished era, when a new gay domain was solidifying only a few years after the Stonewall Riots, and the still nascent gay literary world that Picano would help invent was just a conception. Fred in Love is a charming, nostalgic, funny, gossipy, involving, and ultimately enlightening story about how we learn and grow, and how we love-whether the object of our affection is a cat or another human being. It's sure to take its place next to Picano's now classic literary memoirs Ambidextrous, Men Who Loved Me, and A House on the Ocean, a House on the Bay.]]> 26766 3.70 246 45 2005