- Paperback: 325 pages
- Publisher: Diva Books (10 July 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1902852451
- ISBN-13: 978-1902852454
- Product Dimensions: 19.9 x 12.7 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,060,127 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Julian, professor in English Literature at Oxford University, is obsessed with the enigmatic life and death of Victorian poet Lord Melcourt and his unscrupulous lover Toto. When Julian falls for a beautiful, promiscuous student, Sebastian, a highly charged erotic relationship develops. Parallels between the four lives emerge until tragedy reveals the shocking truth.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Gay love in Oxford and Dorset,
This review is from: Sebastian's Tangibles (Paperback)
This book is a beautiful mixture of erotic gay love and a factual search for truth. Julian Collins is an Oxford lecturer whose research interests centre on Victorian poets, in particular,the fictitious Lord (Maximilian) Melcourtwho was himself gay,having a young lover (Toto). Julian is himself a middle-aged gay man who falls madly in love with one of his students, Sebastian Saloniere. The story is an inter-weaving of Julian's desperation to hang on to Sebastian, whose youthful sex-drive causes him to stray from the path of fidelity and his almost obsessional search for the truth about Max and Toto, with whom he identifies. Almost every chapter's title alludes to food (Julian is a self-confessed consummate chef). The book contains lyrical accounts of his and Sebastian's love-making, as well as highly entertaining and amusing encounters with the various people he meets in his quest for more information about his subject matter. In all, a highly enjoyable and readable novel.
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Oxford lecturer besotted,
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This review is from: Sebastian's Tangibles (Paperback)
Dr Julian Collins is a lecturer at Oxford, obsessed with the life of Victorian poet Lord Melcroft and his lover Toto. When a beautiful amoral student named Sebastian Saloniere, apples for a place at Oxford Collins is smitten, and what follows is a tempestuous affair. Sebastian is also deeply interested in Morcroft and Toto, and as they pursue both their affair and the study of the Victorian poet, parallels between their respective lives become apparent.
The characters are well drawn, and Sebastian is adorable, and not just physically. The story is imaginative with plenty of twists, and a few surprises.
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4.0 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews) 2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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An engaging and realistic read,
By "mountaindolphin" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sebastian's Tangibles (Paperback)
Ingham does not bite off too much with the book, choosing to manage mainly two characters, and focusing on the paranoia of only one. She succeeds in weaving an engrossing tale that is believable, especially to one who's familiar with the setting of the book. Though if they ate in the Randolph, why not Le Manoir Des Quat' Saison? Loved the twist in the very end, though I thought that Sebastians outings were too well explained in the end. Not so nice when all the threads in a story come together. Considering how well she described a homosexual relationship, could not believe that the writer of this book is a mother with many children. Shows how small the borders of my world are.
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Oxford lecturer besotted,
By Benjamin - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sebastian's Tangibles (Paperback)
Dr Julian Collins is a lecturer at Oxford, obsessed with the life of Victorian poet Lord Melcroft and his lover Toto. When a beautiful amoral student named Sebastian Saloniere, apples for a place at Oxford Collins is smitten, and what follows is a tempestuous affair. Sebastian is also deeply interested in Morcroft and Toto, and as they pursue both their affair and the study of the Victorian poet, parallels between their respective lives become apparent.
The characters are well drawn, and Sebastian is adorable, and not just physically. The story is imaginative with plenty of twists, and a few surprises. |
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