Address Book
Published on 4. November 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
258 pages
978-1-912620-12-8 (ISBN)
Description
'Address Book is peopled with lovers, battlers, adventurers and optimists. Neil Bartlett is a peerless chronicler of queer lives past and present.'-NIVEN GOVINDEN
Within the pages of this address book you will find not only names and places, but lives-with their everyday griefs and joys, and their everyday braveries.
Seven different times. Seven different situations. Seven different characters, each seeking to feel at home-somewhere or with someone. Let Bartlett lead you surefootedly between lives and locations, through decades of change to find hope in the strangest of places.
'Neil Bartlett is an all-seeing wizard'-EDMUND WHITE
'Bartlett is a pioneer on and off the page and we are lucky to have him telling our stories.'-DAMIAN BARR
Within the pages of this address book you will find not only names and places, but lives-with their everyday griefs and joys, and their everyday braveries.
Seven different times. Seven different situations. Seven different characters, each seeking to feel at home-somewhere or with someone. Let Bartlett lead you surefootedly between lives and locations, through decades of change to find hope in the strangest of places.
'Neil Bartlett is an all-seeing wizard'-EDMUND WHITE
'Bartlett is a pioneer on and off the page and we are lucky to have him telling our stories.'-DAMIAN BARR
Reviews / Votes
"Vivid characters, a fascinating subject and an expertly evoked setting. Excellent'"- Daily Mail; "Bartlett delights in taking that which was once hidden and making it clear for all to see." - Independent; "This book and its enchanting characters had me under their spell. I was bewitched." - Sheila Hancock; "Mysterious, tender and utterly compelling." - S.J. Watson "One of England's finest writers" - Edmund WhiteMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 195 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
248 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-912620-12-8 (9781912620128)
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Person
Neil Bartlett lives in London with his partner James Gardiner. His first novel, the ground-breaking queer love story Ready To Catch Him Should He Fall, was written in a council flat on the Isle of Dogs, published in 1990 and translated into five European languages. Since then, his books have been nominated for (amongst others) the Whitbread Prize (Mr Clive and Mr Page, 1996), the Costa Award (Skin Lane, 2007) and the Polari Prize (Address Book, 2022). Address Book was an Observer Book of the Year 2021, and The Disappearance Boy earnt him a nomination for Stonewall Author of the Year in 2014. Neil also makes theatre; he wrote the script for Orlando, the lead role in which was played by Emma Corrin in the West End of London in 2022, and most recently he created, with actor Russell Tovey, a special live performance of Derek Jarman's landmark final film, BLUE.