Ready To Catch Him Should He Fall
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- $10.99
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Publisher Description
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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bartlett's novel of gay life in an unnamed city is an amalgam of gossip, jaded elegance and romance, blended with narrative ambiguities and precious conceits.
Customer Reviews
Mesmerising when this came out….
….and still captivating and unworldly and recognisable when re-read in 2023. I’m amazed at how many images and phrases from my first reading are here, at times word for word, perfectly recalled.