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Love in a dark time : and other explorations of gay lives and literature / Colm Tóibín

By:

Toibin, Colm, , 1955-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Scribner , 2004, c2001.Description: 263 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780743244671

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DDC classification:

810.992 TOI

LOC classification:

PN56.H57 T65 2002

Summary: An award-winning writer examines the life and work of some of the greatest authors of the past two centuries, figures whose homosexuality remained hidden or oblique for much of their lives. Toibin looks both at writers forced to disguise their true experience on the page, and at readers who find solace and sexual identity by reading between the lines.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	810.992 TOI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		049770

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"Originally published in 2001 in Australia by Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Limited"--T.p. verso.

An award-winning writer examines the life and work of some of the greatest authors of the past two centuries, figures whose homosexuality remained hidden or oblique for much of their lives. Toibin looks both at writers forced to disguise their true experience on the page, and at readers who find solace and sexual identity by reading between the lines.

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