GRAYGAY BOOKS BOOK OF THE MONTH

Positive relationships between older and younger men are rarely included in gay writing so we attempt to pick the best fiction and biography that deals with this subject.

Coming out is difficult at any time, and possibly even harder when you're older, so we have books that may help, Dating books to help you to find Mr Right and Sex Advice books to help you perform when you've found him.

For older gay readers we have lifestyle advice, health and fitness and bereavement as well as practical advice for those new to computers and the internet. And for every gay man, a guide to gay travel books.

If you're looking for studies of gay ageing issues see the research section.

Back Where He Started Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
by David Sedaris
Reviews: 4.7 out of 5 stars
List Price: $14.95
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An unforgettable collection of hillarious stories from one of the wittiest and most original (gay) writers at work today.
Fiction
Back Where He Started Back Where He Started
by Jay Quinn
Reviews: 4.7 out of 5 stars
List Price: $14.95
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As he embraces the patchwork of his new life, a middle-aged gay man living in a North Carolina beach town comes to terms with the sudden departure of his lover and earns a new appreciation of his role as heart of the home to his grown children.
Back Where He Started Half Life
by Aaron Krach
Reviews: 4.7 out of 5 stars
List Price: $13.95
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The story of the developing relationship between a young man and an older cop and the difficulties this presents to his to him and his fracturing family.

Now and Then
by William Corlett
Reviews: 4.7 out of 5 stars

List Price: $12.95
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GrayGay.com comments: Beautifully told story of a lost first love and the consequences - consistently engaging, amusing, and finally deeply moving.

A Single Man
by Christopher Isherwood
Reviews: 4.6 out of 5 stars

List Price: $14.95
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GrayGay.com comments:
A frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in mid-life.
The Mentor: A Memoir of Friendship and Gay Identity by Jay Quinn, Nicholas Weinstock Reviews: 5.0 out of 5 stars
List Price:$37.90(Hardback)
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Discover the impact a mentor can have on a young gay man's life!
Ready to catch him should he fall
by Neil Bartlett
Reviews: 5.0 out of 5 stars
List Price: £6.99 (UK Edition)
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The rites and ceremonies of a love affair and a happy marriage between an older and younger man.
The Front Runner
by Patricia Nell Warren
Reviews: 4.6 out of 5 stars

List Price: $14.95
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Tracing the life of a track coach and his love for a young athlete all the way the Olympics.
Two Gentlemen Sharing
by William Corlett
Reviews: 3.8 out of 5 stars
List Price: £7.99 (UK Edition)
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A comedy of manners as a mixed-age gay couple move in to an Englsih country town.
The Weekend
by Peter Cameron
Reviews: 4.6 out of 5 stars
List Price: £7.99 (UK Edition)
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GrayGay.com comments:
Older man takes his new younger lover for a weekend with old friends and creates unexpected tensions.
The Lost Language of Cranes
by David Leavitt
Reviews: 5.0 out of 5 stars
List Price: $12.00
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While Phillip is confronting his changing relationship with his lover, his father Owen is finally, confronting his homosexuality (See also the movie version here)

Joseph and the Old Man
by Christopher Davis

Reviews: 4.6 out of 5 stars

List Price: From $5.29 (Used)
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Cherry Grove, situated along the magnificent beach of Fire Island, is the setting for this unusually poignant May-December love story between The Old Man, a world-famous novelist, and Joe, his sleek and tan young lover. Surrounded by steady friends and finding fulfillment in each other, the couple are utterly content in another summer at the beach until life throws them a curve. (One of my all time favourites - Ed).
Death in Venice, and Seven Other Stories
by by Thomas Mann, H.T. Lowe-Porter (Translator)
Reviews: 4.6 out of 5 stars
List Price: $10.95
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Published on the eve of World War I, "Death in Venice" tells the story of Gustave Aschenbach, an aging writer who visits Venice. In the decaying city, which is besieged by a cholera epidemic, he becomes obsessed with an exquisite Polish boy, Tadzio.
Perfect Mondays
by Stanley E. Ely
Reviews: 4.6 out of 5 stars
List Price:$15.95
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What happens when a Manhattan Jewish copywriter joins a psychotherapy group and finds he's the lone gay member? Greg Fine's ups and downs in his group, as well as his relationships, humorous and poignant, with friends, potential lovers and actual family. Ely's novel is a comic story about an gay man's slippery path into his senior years.
American Studies
by Mark Merlis
Reviews: 4.6 out of 5 stars
List Price: $11.95
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Narrated by a 60yo gay man in hospital after being beaten by a trick, the novel tells the story of F.O. Matthiessen, a great American literary critic who committed suicide in 1950 after being outed and ostracized at Harvard, where he taught for more than twenty years. Most importantly, though, Merlis writes like an angel, every sentence beautifully made, charming, amusing, and moving. It is as perfect as a novel can be.
Back Where He Started Christopher : A Tale of Seduction
by Allison Burnett
Reviews: 4.7 out of 5 stars
List Price: $1.00 (used and new)
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Debonair oddball, B. K. Troop is delighted when Chris Ireland, a 25-year-old aspiring writer, moves into his apartment building in January 1984. B. K. is convinced he can work his subtle charms on the younger man. Like any entertaining seduction yarn, things don't quite go according to the seducer's plan.
 
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