Summary
Martin is kind, decent and good-looking. And look where it’s got him. His boyfriend of four years has run off with a male prostitute. His friends John and Caroline are no help - John prefers infamy to sympathy and Caroline is too busy trying to work out if her wonderful, sensitive boyfriend is a closet case. And to top it all, Martin’s hippie father turns up to stay, wearing his ‘Proud to be an Embarrassing Parent’ badge.
To escape, Martin jumps head first into hedonism, throwing hims…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349114798 |
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| ISBN-10: | 034911479X |
| Author: | Paul Burston |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 13 June 2002 |
| Weight: | 208g |
| Dimensions: | 130mm x 200mm x 20mm |
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A wickedly funny comedy centring around the lives and loves of Martin, a gay man who’s just been dumped and his two best friends, eager to help him our but not quite sure how to go about it. - RED
A juicy QUEER AS FOLK- like read. - COMPANYWickedly funny. - HEATStraddles low and high brow, working as both a colonically challenged BRIDGET JONES’S DIARY and a coruscating expose of the drug-infested urban gay experience, so often mistaked for liberating hedonism. - THE FACEAbout The Author
Paul Burston
Paul Burston’s work has appeared in TIME OUT, SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY and on CHANNEL 4. The INDEPENDENT named him ‘one of the 40 most influential gay men in Britain’. He is also a curator in residence at the South Bank.
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