Private Worlds - Growing Up Gay in Post-War Britain
Verlag | Pluto Press |
Auflage | 2023 |
Seiten | 224 |
Format | 15,1 x 1,7 x 20,0 cm |
Gewicht | 204 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
EAN | 9780745348421 |
Bestell-Nr | 74534842EA |
A moving memoir chronicling the friendship of two gay men coming of age in 1950s Britain
All profound relationships have the quality of being a folie a deux; an intimate departure from reality, an imaginative creation of a world apart; perhaps this is a way of calling forth meaning - the merging of senseless subjectivities.'
In 1950s suburban England, a friendship bloomed between Jeremy Seabrook and Michael O'Neill - both gay men coming of age during a time when homosexuality was still a crime. Their relationship was inflected by secrecy and fear; the shadows that had distorted their adolescent years were never wholly dispelled, long into their adult life.
Lyrical, candid and poignant, this is a tale of sexual identity, working-class history and family drama. A memoir of unparalleled authenticity, Private Worlds is an elegy for a doomed friendship.