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Ready To Catch Him Should He Fall
Neil Bartlett
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Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
It is 3 a.m. in The City, and in a dark corner of The Bar, two lovers collide in the beginnings of a passionate and violent affair.
Boy: nineteen, beautiful, ready for anyone to take him home, and 'O': the Older Man, cynical, unpredictable, and at the mercy of his personal demons. Their romance is orchestrated and observed by the owner of The Bar, Madame, who looks after her boys and ensures that their haven remains inviolate.
At once a joyful celebration of homosexual love and culture, and a devastating evocation of the homophobic climate which stemmed from the 80s AIDS crisis, Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall offers a decisively contemporary recasting of the traditional love story.
First published in 1990 and immediately acclaimed as the work of a bold new voice in English fiction, Neil Bartlett's powerful debut continues to shine with an ageless wisdom and wit.
Rezensionen
Tender, brutal, explicit, erotic and moving... a fictional debut of staggering assurance and ability
Stands head-and-shoulders above any British or American gay novel to have appeared in several years
An extraordinary book... reveals what it is like to be gay in a city that, for the most part, pretends you don'
As good a novel as you are likely to read this year
Sexual, elegiac, imaginative and powerfully written
Brilliant,beautiful, mischievous; few men can match Bartlett for the breadth of his exploration of gay sensibility
A writer who can really change the way people think
Neil Bartlett has grabbed history by the collar and made bitter love to it... At the very moment gay existence is threatened by disease and a renewed puritanism, Bartlett has embraced what was alien and criminal or merely clinical and loved it into poignant life
Exquisite ... a moving and erotic love story
Profoundly moving and enriching. Bartlett has achieved what is almost impossible: he has written a novel about successful, happy love
An exuberant individualist... his style is a disconcerting mix of the plush and the confrontational, underpinned by indignation at society'
A triumph both in its execution and in its intent
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