Not many writers could have two old men having sexual intercourse in a bedsit to a soundtrack of Shabba Ranks's 'Mr. "Evaristo has a lot going on in this unusual urban romance, but beneath her careful study of race and sexuality is a beautiful love story. Evaristo tells us of lives we imagined we knew, while rearranging much more than the furniture." The familiar trope of the closet is deployed, but contested and reworked in winningly credible, moving ways.The effect is variously comical, agonizing and, ultimately, moving. "Evaristo's second prose novel similarly transforms our often narrow perceptions of gay men in England. Loverman.explores issues of homosexuality in the British West Indies and London's West Indian diaspora community.I loved.this tender, even trailblazing novel." "Fear and loathing of homosexuals has a long history in the West Indies.Bernardine Evaristo, in her funny, brave new novel, Mr. himself might have acknowledged-it is very clever indeed." "A brilliant study of great characters in modern London. If you don't yet know her work, you should-she says things about modern Britain that no one else does." "This riproaring, full-bodied riff on sex, secrecy and family is Bernardine Evaristo's seventh book.
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