The Buddies Cycle Series (books)

The Buddies Cycle Series

This series chronicles the lives of a close-knit group of friends navigating urban existence, exploring their relationships, personal transformations, and the search for love. With a voice that is both witty and profound, the narratives delve into the complexities of desire, identity, and the stories we tell ourselves. It offers a poignant and often ironic look at how experiences shape us and how human connection forms the core of our lives. The cycle is a testament to the power of shared narratives and the enduring quest for authenticity.

Buddies

Ethan Mordden

240 pages
9 hours of reading

"What unites us, all of us, surely is brotherhood, a sense that our friendships are historic, designed to hold Stonewall together," muses on character in Ethan Mordden's Buddies. This need for friendship, for nonerotic affection, for buddies, shines forth as an American obsession from Moby-Dick through Of Mice and Men to The Sting. And American gay life has built upon and cherished these relationships, even as it has dared-perhaps its most startling iconoclasm-to break new ground by combining romance and friendship: one's lover is one's buddy.This book is about those relationships-mostly gay but some straight and even a few between gays and straights. Here also are fathers and brothers and stories of men in their youth, when rivalry often develops more naturally than alliance. In Buddies Mordden continues to map the unstoried wilderness of gay life today.

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