{"product_id":"buddies-paperback-1","title":"Buddies: A Continuation of the Buddies Cycle - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEthan Mordden\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eBuddies. \u003c\/i\u003eThis need for friendship, for nonerotic affection, for buddies, shines forth as an American obsession from \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick \u003c\/i\u003ethrough \u003ci\u003eOf Mice and Men \u003c\/i\u003eto \u003ci\u003eThe Sting. \u003c\/i\u003eAnd 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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 \u003ci\u003eBuddies \u003c\/i\u003eMordden continues to map the unstoried wilderness of gay life today.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEthan Mordden\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of dozens of books, both fiction and nonfiction. His writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and numerous other magazines and journals. He lives in Manhattan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.59 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 15, 1987\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42134559981703,"sku":"9780312010058","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/b24fb6dc1944b450f26c43d7de95b8b7_a0bcc17c-38e9-4a3f-af60-4451bffd1334.webp?v=1732642710","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/buddies-paperback-1","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}