John Preston, Author Plume Books $13.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-452-26855-5
Less about geography than about the need to belong, these 28 gay writers' moving essays about their sense of home elucidate the adolescent disenfranchisement of gay males in small communities. BOMC and QPB selections in cloth. (Oct.)
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John Preston, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (102p) ISBN 978-0-312-11792-4
This reissue of Preston's classic gay novel adds a sequel to the events depicted in the 1983 edition. As Preston wrote in an epilogue, ``Franny is the history of the development of the gay community.'' And what a chronicle it is, as the changing...
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John Preston, Author, Psy D. Preston, Editor Dutton Books $22 (320p) ISBN 978-0-525-93549-0
Preston ( Hometowns ) collects 24 personal, intensely moving accounts of gays' family relationships in this splendid anthology. One is a reflection on the unsuspected depths of a man's blooming relationship with a much younger brother, In another,...
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John Preston, Author, Nicolette Varzos, With, Douglas Liebert, With Impact Publishers $9.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-915166-88-6
Together with clinicians and researchers, Preston (You Can Beat Depression, Impact Pubs., 1989) here presents a succinct, readable account of brief psychotherapy. The authors assert that brief therapy encourages clients to take action, perhaps in...
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John Preston, Author, Psy D. Preston, Author Plume Books $12.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-452-27032-9
Essays by 27 gay writers discuss growing up, coming out, family idiosyncrasies, reconciliations and unresolved conflicts. (Feb.)
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John Preston, Author, Michael Lowenthal, Editor, Andrew Holleran, Foreword by University Press of New England $29.95 (199p) ISBN 978-0-87451-674-6
Preston, who died of AIDS-related illness in 1994, was a prolific editor of the Advocate, novelist (Franny, the Queen of Provincetown) and essayist. His was a prominent and brave if unpolished voice in gay literature. The pieces collected here--autob
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John Preston. Other Press, $16.95 ISBN 978-1-59051-780-2
The real 1939 excavation of an Anglo-Saxon burial site becomes a moving tale of mortality and the passage of time in Preston’s affecting novel. As war with Germany nears, aging widow Edith Pretty decides to have the mounds on her Suffolk land...
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John Preston. Other, $27.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-59051-814-4
In 1979, Jeremy Thorpe, a popular member of Parliament, stood trial over claims that he hired an assassin to murder model Norman Scott, who claimed to be Thorpe’s ex-lover. In this addictive true crime account of one of Britain’s greatest political...
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John Preston. Harper, $28.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-299749-4
Preston (A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot in the Houses of Parliament) takes a detailed look at the mysterious 1991 death of media mogul Robert Maxwell in this tepid outing. Maxwell was born Ludvik Hoch in 1923 to an impoverished...
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John Preston and Elton John. Liveright, $28.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-324-09547-7
Elton John granted journalist Preston (Fall) access to his personal archives for this stirring chronicle of how the musician turned the Watford Football Club’s fortunes around after buying the team in 1976. Watford was languishing in the Fourth...
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