The collection ranges from the tender unarticulated longings of D.H. Lawrence's "A Poem of Friendship" and ends with the explicit sexual interaction of two boys in a bathtub in A.M. Homes's "The Two Whiz Kids". Writers include both men and women, gay and straight, amongst them: Barbara Pym, Edna O'Brien, F.M. Forster, Christopher Isherwood, Paul Bailey, William Trevor and Edmund White.
- ISBN10 0670854689
- ISBN13 9780670854684
- Publish Date 14 January 1994
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 October 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Viking Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 688
- Language English