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Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar
Colm Tóibín
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Description for Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar
Hardcover. Very good copy in near fine dustwrapper.
First edition
Colm Toibin looks at the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, figures in the main whose homosexuality remained hidden or oblique for much of their lives. Either by choice or necessity, being gay seemed to come second for many of these writers. Yet in their privates lives, and also in the spirit of their work, the laws of desire changed everything for them and made all the difference. Ranging from figures such as Oscar Wilde, born in the 1850s, to Pedro Almodovar, born a hundred years later, this ... Read more
First edition
Colm Toibin looks at the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, figures in the main whose homosexuality remained hidden or oblique for much of their lives. Either by choice or necessity, being gay seemed to come second for many of these writers. Yet in their privates lives, and also in the spirit of their work, the laws of desire changed everything for them and made all the difference. Ranging from figures such as Oscar Wilde, born in the 1850s, to Pedro Almodovar, born a hundred years later, this ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Picador
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330491372
SKU
KEX0303323
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99-1
About Colm Tóibín
Colm Toibin was born in lreland in 1955. He is the author of four novels, The South, The Heather Blazing, The Story of the Night and The Blackwater Lightship, which was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize. His non-fiction includes Bad Blood, Homage to Barcelona and The Sign of the Cross. His work ahs been translated into seventeen languages. He ... Read more
Reviews for Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar
Ranging from figures such as Thomas Mann and Oscar Wilde to Francis Bacon and Pedro Almodovar, this is an illuminating study of the personalities behind the work and the effect of their sexuality upon their lives.