An Asian Minor: The True Story of Ganymede - Hardcover

Picano, Felice

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9780933322066: An Asian Minor: The True Story of Ganymede

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0933322062 ISBN 13: 9780933322066

Publisher: Sea Horse Pr Ltd, 1981

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Long out-of-print, this novella is Ganymede's life story--unapologetic in its ribald details of gods in disguise, trying to seduce the most beautiful youth in the Ancient world--features a new introduction by the author and beautiful full-color homoerotic artwork by the talented Italian illustrator Fedini.

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About the Author:

Felice Picano is the author of more than twenty-five books of poetry, fiction, memoirs, nonfiction, and plays. His work has been translated into many languages and several of his titles have been national and international bestsellers. He is considered a founder of modern gay literature along with the other members of the Violet Quill. Picano also began and operated the SeaHorse Press and Gay Presses of New York for fifteen years. His first novel was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Since then he's been nominated for and/or won dozens of literary awards. Picano teaches at Antioch College, Los Angeles.

Review:

''... An Asian Minor, with its illustrations and colloquial style, is like a comic book--an adult comic book to be sure, but one that lets the air out of any serious classical pretensions.... In fact, Ganymede is the very picture of a hustler on the make, some beautiful actor/waiter/model who finds himself on Fire Island trying to lay claim to the wealthiest and most powerful sugar daddy so that if he's kept, it will be at least in the style he always dreamed of.'' --David Bergman, author of The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture

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