Address Book (Paperback)

Neil Bartlett

ISBN 10: 191262012X / ISBN 13: 9781912620128

Editore: Inkandescent, 2021

Paperback. Address Book is peopled with lovers, battlers, adventurers and optimists. Neil Bartlett is a peerless chronicler of queer lives past and present.NIVEN GOVINDENWithin the pages of this address book you will find not only names and places, but liveswith their everyday griefs and joys, and their everyday braveries. Seven different times. Seven different situations. Seven different characters, each seeking to feel at homesomewhere or with someone. Let Bartlett lead you surefootedly between lives and locations, through decades of change to find hope in the strangest of places.Neil Bartlett is an all-seeing wizardEDMUND WHITE'Bartlett is a pioneer on and off the page and we are lucky to have him telling our stories.'DAMIAN BARR New fiction from Costa-shortlisted author of Skin Lane takes us to seven different times and situations: from a civil partnership celebration to erotic obsession in a Victorian tenement, from a council-flat bedroom at the height of the AIDS crisis to a doctor's living-room in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9781912620128

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‘Address Book is peopled with lovers, battlers, adventurers and optimists. Neil Bartlett is a peerless chronicler of queer lives past and present.’―NIVEN GOVINDEN

Within the pages of this address book you will find not only names and places, but lives―with their everyday griefs and joys, and their everyday braveries.

Seven different times. Seven different situations. Seven different characters, each seeking to feel at home―somewhere or with someone. Let Bartlett lead you surefootedly between lives and locations, through decades of change to find hope in the strangest of places.

‘Neil Bartlett is an all-seeing wizard’―EDMUND WHITE

'Bartlett is a pioneer on and off the page and we are lucky to have him telling our stories.'―DAMIAN BARR

Informazioni sull'autore: Neil Bartlett was born in 1958. He grew up in Chichester, West Sussex, and now lives in Worthing and London. He is the author of novels Mr. Clive and Mr. Page (1996), shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award, and published in the US under the title The House on Brooke Street; Ready To Catch Him Should He Fall (1990); and Who Was That Man? A Present for Mr. Oscar Wilde (1988), a ground-breaking study which places Oscar Wilde in a wider gay historical and cultural context. This book won the Capital Gay Book of the Year Award. His most recent novels are Skin Lane (2007), shortlisted for the 2007 Costa Novel Award, and The Disappearance Boy (2014). He has also written several short stories.

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Titolo: Address Book (Paperback)
Casa editrice: Inkandescent
Data di pubblicazione: 2021
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: new