The Story
Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar
In Love in a Dark Time, Colm TĂłibĂn looks at the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Linked by the common thread of their sexualities, his subjects range from figures such as Oscar Wilde, born in the 1850s, to Pedro AlmodĂłvar, born nearly a hundred years later. TĂłibĂn studies how a changing world impacted on the lives of people who, on the whole, kept their homosexuality hidden, and reveals that the laws of desire changed everything for them, both in their private lives and in the spirit of their work.
Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.
Description
Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar
In Love in a Dark Time, Colm TĂłibĂn looks at the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Linked by the common thread of their sexualities, his subjects range from figures such as Oscar Wilde, born in the 1850s, to Pedro AlmodĂłvar, born nearly a hundred years later. TĂłibĂn studies how a changing world impacted on the lives of people who, on the whole, kept their homosexuality hidden, and reveals that the laws of desire changed everything for them, both in their private lives and in the spirit of their work.
Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.
