{"product_id":"9781250086419","title":"Buddies: A Continuation of the \"Buddies\" Cycle","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","brand":"St. Martin's Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47111559577840,"sku":"9781250086419","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781250086419_p0.jpg?v=1769891949","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781250086419","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}