Felice Pioano, Author, Felice Picano, Author Plume Books $8.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-452-26528-8
The narrator tours Europe in the 1960s, luxuriating in his homosexual lifestyle; he later returns to New York's Greenwich Village where the Stonewall rebellion marks the beginning of the gay rights movement. An AIDS ending is ``ham-handed'' in an...
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Felice Picano, Author . Alyson $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-55583-640-5
In the 20 years since the emergence of AIDS as a national health crisis, few writers have chronicled the disease's enormous impact on the nation's social and cultural landscape as has Picano (Like People in History; Ambidextrous, etc.). He...
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Felice Picano, Author . Carroll & Graf $15.95 (265p) ISBN 978-0-78671-813-9
Aprogenitor of the gay literary movement, as well as a poet, author and publisher, Picano recounts the creatively rich, landmark period during the 1970s and ’80s when the first dedicated gay presses arose in New York City. Focusing primarily...
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Felice Picano, Author Masquerade Books $6.95 (422p) ISBN 978-1-56333-274-6
Picano's zesty, autobiographical novel depicting 20 years in the life of a brainy, gay bon vivant launches Masquerade's Hard Candy imprint dedicated to ``non-pornographic gay men's fiction.'' (Dec.)
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Felice Picano, Author Gay Presses of New York $14.95 (200p) ISBN 978-0-914017-06-6
This fictionalized memoir recounts the adventures of an Italian-American schoolboy as he undergoes the trial of maturity in an upper-middle-class New York City suburb. One teacher hates him because he is left-handed, while another admires his...
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Felice Picano, Author William Morrow & Company $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-06332-0
Picano's psychic spy thriller has its strengths but plausibility is not among them. In 1969, Columbia University student Barry Brescia avoids the draft by taking a summer job with the CIA in Paris. He falls in love with 18-year-old Russian violinist
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Felice Picano, Author Dutton Books $18.95 (325p) ISBN 978-0-453-00700-9
This zesty latest segment of a fictional autobiography opens in the frenetic 1960s when Picano ( Ambidextrous ) discovers Europe--and his homosexuality--and ends two decades later with the first rumblings of AIDS. The narrator is a brainy bon vivant,
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Felice Picano, Author Viking Books $23.95 (528p) ISBN 978-0-670-86047-0
Though Picano's latest may lack the significance implied by its subtitle, his memorable characters and wonderfully dishy dialogue evoke changing gay sensibilities with affecting measures of both tragedy and comedy. The novel opens in New York City,...
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Felice Picano, Author Alyson Books $12.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-55583-481-4
""He tells me that we are bound to each other by bonds greater and more lasting than any he has known--immortal ties. And I--fool that I am--I believe him."" Immortal ties entangle lovers a century apart in Picano's (Like People in History) vaguely...
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Felice Picano, Author Faber & Faber $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-571-19913-6
It might strike some readers as hubristic that this author, now in his 50s, has written his third book of memoirs (after Men Who Loved Me and Ambidextrous). Indeed, the amount of minutiae contained here seems more self-serving than illuminating,...
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Felice Picano, Author Alyson Books $24.95 (423p) ISBN 978-1-55583-541-5
Things are not what they seem in Picano's (Like People in History) novel of academic intrigue. In the early 21st century, Ross Ohrenstedt is an ambitious assistant professor at UCLA, researching the work of the legendary literary salon the Purple...
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Felice Picano, Author Southern Tier Editions $24.95 (525p) ISBN 978-1-56023-520-0
In his introduction to the reprint, Felice Picano calls his 1995 SF novel, Dryland's End, ""one of my least-known, least-written-of or spoken-of books, yet at the same time one of my most ardently beloved books."" Picano (Like People in History)...
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