Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall (Five Star Paperback) |
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 | I read this book when it first came out and I must have enjoyed it because I've kept a copy for all these years but when I picked it up off the shelf to re-read I had absolutely no memory of it- usually a book stays somewhere in the subconscious but as I began it I thought I'd never read it before. Until, that is, Bartlett's hypnotic prose began to draw me in once again. The plot is a simple love story- Boy meets Older Man so nothing there was memorable enough to stay with me over the years but Bartlett's style is exquisite- it's a mixture of kitchen sink drama, fairy tale, gay coming of age story, myth and great tragedy yet it ends up being none of these. Enigmatic is probably the word for it but that makes it sound inaccessible which it isn't. At times it is a book of extraordinary power and beautiful writing, in places it is a little frustrating and borders on being pointless but it is certainly worth reading even if time hasn't led it to be the "classic" it promised to be when ... read more.
Written by Neil Bartlett.
Published 18 March 1998.
Published by Serpent's Tail.
rrp £6.99.
320 pages Paperback.
ISBN: 1852427051
ISBN-13: 9781852427054 | |
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