Set against the harsh reality of an unforgiving landscape and culture, The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon provides a vision of the Old West unlike anything seen before. The narrator, Shed, is one of the most memorable characters in contemporary fiction: a half-Indian bisexual boy who lives and works at the Indian Head Hotel in the tiny town of Excellent, Idaho. It's the turn of the century, and the hotel carries on a prosperous business as the town's brothel. The eccentric characters w...

A young gay man comes of age amid the AIDs epidemic of "a n expertly drawn, starkly authentic, early-1980s Manhattan" in this novel by the acclaimed author ( Publishers Weekly).Shy, afflicted with a stutter, and struggling with his sexuality, Will Parker comes to New York to escape his provincial western hometown. In New York, he finds himself surrounded for the first time by people who understand and ce...

Shy, afflicted with a stutter, and struggling with his sexuality, Will Parker comes to New York to escape the provincial western towns where he grew up. In New York, he finds himself surrounded for the first time by people who understand and celebrate his quirks and flaws. He also begins an unforgettable love affair with a volatile, six-foot-five African-American drag queen and performance artist named Rose. But even as he is falling in love with Rose and growing into himself, Will must wa...

El apasionante viaje de un adolescente hacia su libertad. Tom Spanbauer consigue convertir la brutalidad en ternura y la vulgaridad en poesía.Pocatello, Idaho, 1967. Rigby John Klusener tiene diecisiete años y ha decidido emanciparse. Es hora de abandonar el hogar de sus padres, y de ese modo, con una flor tras la oreja y el dedo pulgar en alto, se dirige a pie por la autopista hacia San Francisco, ciudad que en sueños imagina como el mismísimo par...

Rigby John Kluesener stands in the moonlight, a flower in his hair, his thumb out trying to hitch a ride on the road to San Francisco. The story of how he came to be there - of an adolescence spent on his parents' farm in Nowheresville, Idaho, of his father's misanthropy, his mother's strict Catholicism - is utterly real and totally unforgettable.

La novela más conocida de Tom Spanbauer.Un clásico contemporáneo sobre la sexualidad, la raza y el amor.El narrador de esta historia es Cobertizo, un chico que se gana la vida en un hotel de la pequeña localidad de Excellent, en Idaho. El negocio está regentado por la autori...

Tras siete años desde su última novela, Tom Spanbauer regresa con la historia de un triángulo amoroso, una balada épica brillantemente contada que le ratifica como figura destacada de la literatura norteamericanaBen fue un iluso al creer que podría amar a un hombre y luego a una mujer, «dos personas extraordinarias, dos formas únicas de amar, de décadas diferentes, en extremos opuestos del continente», y salir indemne.Hank y Ben establecieron una profunda a...

" Lire Spanbauer est une expérience physique qui peut mener à un état proche de la transe. Une lecture sous haute tension, subversive et décalée, qui débouche sur un final sublime, opératique, dont le tragique hallucinatoire laisse, une fois la dernière page tournée, le lecteur pantois. " Jérémy Fel.En 1983, William Parker débarque à Manhattan pour retrouver son ami d'enfance et amant, Charlie2Lunes, un Indien qu'il a trahi. Timide, bègue, auréolé d'une sorte d'inn...