Virgin

Thomas Meinecke
Jungfrau
Frankfurt a.M., Suhrkamp Verlag, 2008.
346 Seiten, Gebunden
Euro 19,80 [D] / Euro 20,40 [A] / sFr 34.30
(ISBN 978-3-518-42031-7)



When he came in, glance immediately drawn to the open book, one unfamiliar to him, Lothar informed his former girlfriend, his current best friend, that Myra could be an anagram for the mother of God. There's no way Gore Vidal was thinking about God -- Jeannine's curt response -- it has to do with the homoerotic component, gay men like to call each other Mary. So maybe love between men gets encoded as an purely Catholic specialty?