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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (26 Mar 1992)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140165142
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140165142
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.8 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 523,299 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This novel takes place almost entirely in a backstreet homosexual bar frequented by a motley collection of world-weary regulars. The bar is presided over by the owner, Madame, who looks after her boys, ensuring that the haven remains inviolate. Then one day an innocent young man walks in.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Sexy, erotic, romantic, fascinating cast of characters, 11 Mar 1999
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This review is from: Ready To Catch Him Should He Fall (Five Star Paperback) (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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Moving, erotic and troubling, 16 Dec 1998
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars Strange, beautiful, poignant., 24 Dec 2008
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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.
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