{"product_id":"buddies-9780312010058","title":"Buddies","description":"\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\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martins Press-3PL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/1987\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780312010058\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.59d","brand":"Ethan Mordden","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36635802435740,"sku":"9780312010058","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_f1e59f06-2a70-414a-a1ec-e2a7b4e4cd47.jpg?v=1603840560","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/buddies-9780312010058","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}