- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; Second Printing edition (Sep 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0525933506
- ISBN-13: 978-0525933502
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14.5 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,196,151 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Set in contemporary London, this celebration of gay love follows the rites and ceremonies of a love affair and happy marriage between two men, and describes the bar which is the scene of their courtship.
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Born in 1958, Neil Bartlett has spent twenty-five years at the cutting edge of British gay culture. His ground-breaking study of Oscar Wilde, Who Was That Man? paved the way for a queer re-imagining of history ; his first novel, Ready To Catch Him Should He Fall, was voted Capital Gay Book of The Year; his second, Mr Clive and Mr Page, was nominated for the Whitbread Prize. Both have since been translated into five European languages. Listing him as one of the country's fifty most significant gay cultural figures, the Independent said "Brilliant,beautiful, mischievous; few men can match Bartlett for the breadth of his exploration of gay sensibility". He also works as a director, and in 2000 was awarded an OBE for services to the theatre.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is short is one of the best works of gay-oriented fiction I have ever read. The book has a varied and fascinating cast of characters, in addition to being very sexy and romantic. Neil Bartlett has an incredible power of capturing the beauty of the English Language. 'Ready To Catch Him Should He Fall' was definately a page turner for me. I was somewhat disappointed with 'The House on Brooke Street', however.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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I read this book first of all about a decade ago and remember loving it then. I picked it up recently and decided to re-read it, always worried as I am when re-reading a book that I have loved that the experience will not be the same and that I'll end up wondering why I had loved it so much to begin with. However with this book I was not dissppointed.
It's difficult to put into words how beautiful this novel actually is. The story plays like a simple love story but there is so much more to it. An older man falls for a beautiful and mysterious boy who wanders into the Bar one day. Set to a backdrop of an almost fantasy London where the streets aren't safe, the novel chronicles how O (the older man) and Boy (the younger man) develop into a couple with the help of their guardian angel, Madame/Mother.
Strange. Beautiful. Poignant.
Read it.
It's difficult to put into words how beautiful this novel actually is. The story plays like a simple love story but there is so much more to it. An older man falls for a beautiful and mysterious boy who wanders into the Bar one day. Set to a backdrop of an almost fantasy London where the streets aren't safe, the novel chronicles how O (the older man) and Boy (the younger man) develop into a couple with the help of their guardian angel, Madame/Mother.
Strange. Beautiful. Poignant.
Read it.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Gay sex lacks paradigms - it lacks EXAMPLES. You might not want to get involved in the whole "bottom" or "top" scene, but that doesn't mean that you want to have sex as an "equal". In fact I can't think of anything worse than two people undertaking a responsible and calmly thought out reasonable act of sex, or sexual relationship. WHAT WOULD BE THE POINT?! It would be like junk food. Neil Bartlett provides an archetype for a new kind of relationship - a deconstructed relationship with power relationships and contradictions, but THANK GOD, no compromises. This book is astonishing in that it draws you into a plot that is moving, but more importantly into a relationship that is fundamental, new, exciting, transgressive and yet equal (in its own way). In no way is this a trashily sentimental or sexy book. Nor is it at times an easy book to read. But christ bounce on me, it's a bloody brilliant one...
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Steeped in atmosphere
Our nameless narrator tells of the arrival at The Bar, a discreet establishment with an exclusively gay clientele, of a young nineteen year old incredibly handsome fair skinned... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Benjamin
The one book I wish I could have written.
This is, without doubt, one of the most original, intelligent and satisfying books you will find. From the opening lines the reader is welcomed by a writer in both possession and... Read more
Published on 27 Mar 2010 by HighlandPen
Gorgeous book
This book made an instant impression on me. I read it in a night; it's and one of the most lush, romantic, beautifully written novels I have read.
Published on 14 Nov 2009 by seafrontbookshop
Hypnotic, exquisite but a little frustrating!
I read this book when it first came out and I must have enjoyed it because I've kept a copy for all these years but when I picked it up off the shelf to re-read I had absolutely no... Read more
Published on 8 Oct 2008 by Phil Shanklin
Don't waste your time or money!
This is without doubt the most dis-jointed, pretentious and self-indulgent drivel that I have ever had the misfortune to encounter. Read more
Published on 2 April 2001 by jonpeter27@yahoo.co.uk
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