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''The first biography of Thom Gunn, and likely the definitive one. [...] Nott''s book is one of the best versions of a gay relationship conducted over this half century.'' Colm Tóibín

Michael Nott's brilliant and necessary new biography Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life is a comprehensive study of a major poet's investigations of the paradoxical liberation and constraint of queer desire.' Los Angeles Review of Books

''[Nott] has set out here to produce a work sturdy enough to support decades of future commentary on Gunn. He's succeededthis book is everything you ever wanted to know about Thom Gunn but had not even thought about asking.'' New York Times Book Review

The virtues of Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life are many: a total command of Gunn's life; a clear, though hardly idolatrous, affection for its subject; and a true critic's touch.' The Baffler

The eagerly awaited, no-holds-ba

Thom Gunn A Cool Queer Life

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''The first biography of Thom Gunn, and likely the definitive one. [...] Nott''s book is one of the best versions... Read more

    Publisher: Faber & Faber
    Publication Date: 7/18/2024
    ISBN13: 9780571362523, 978-0571362523
    ISBN10: 0571362524

    Non Fiction , Biography

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    ''The first biography of Thom Gunn, and likely the definitive one. [...] Nott''s book is one of the best versions of a gay relationship conducted over this half century.'' Colm Tóibín

    Michael Nott's brilliant and necessary new biography Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life is a comprehensive study of a major poet's investigations of the paradoxical liberation and constraint of queer desire.' Los Angeles Review of Books

    ''[Nott] has set out here to produce a work sturdy enough to support decades of future commentary on Gunn. He's succeededthis book is everything you ever wanted to know about Thom Gunn but had not even thought about asking.'' New York Times Book Review

    The virtues of Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life are many: a total command of Gunn's life; a clear, though hardly idolatrous, affection for its subject; and a true critic's touch.' The Baffler

    The eagerly awaited, no-holds-ba

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