Ready To Catch Him Should He Fall - Brossura

Bartlett, Neil

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1852427051 ISBN 13: 9781852427054

Casa editrice: Profile Books Ltd, 1998

Riassunto

At three in the morning, to the sound of slow music on the piano, in the darkest corner of the best bar in the city, two lovers fall into each others arms... one is older and wiser: one is just nineteen. Then follow the rites and ceremonies of a love affair and a happy marriage. From the kisses of courtship to the reading of the banns; from the wedding to the lovemaking to the moment when the first child is cradled in the loving parents' arms, everything in this story is in its proper place. Except that this marriage is a marriage between two men. Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall recasts earlier twentieth century fiction into a decisively contemporary account of how men in love might imagine their lives.

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Stands head-and-shoulders above any British or American gay novel to have appeared in several years (Gay Times)

A writer who can really change the way people think (Literary Review)

If he can do this with his first novel, what heights will his fourth or fifth reach? (Ruth Rendell Sunday Times)

L'autore:

Born in 1958, Neil Bartlett has spent twenty-five years at the cutting edge of British gay culture. His ground-breaking study of Oscar Wilde, Who Was That Man? paved the way for a queer re-imagining of history ; his first novel, Ready To Catch Him Should He Fall, was voted Capital Gay Book of The Year; his second, Mr Clive and Mr Page, was nominated for the Whitbread Prize. Both have since been translated into five European languages. Listing him as one of the country's fifty most significant gay cultural figures, the Independent said "Brilliant,beautiful, mischievous; few men can match Bartlett for the breadth of his exploration of gay sensibility". He also works as a director, and in 2000 was awarded an OBE for services to the theatre.

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• Editore: Profile Books Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1852427051
• ISBN 13: 9781852427054
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320