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Love in a Dark Time

And Other Explorations of Gay Lives and Literature

Love in a Dark Time( )
Author: Toibin, Colm
ISBN:978-0-7432-4467-1
Publication Date:Jun 2004
Publisher:Scribner
Imprint:Scribner
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $18.99
Book Description:

Colm Tóibín knows the languages of the outsider, the secret keeper, the gay man or woman. He knows the covert and overt language of homosexuality in literature. In Love in a Dark Time, he also describes the solace of finding like-minded companions through reading. Colm Tóibín examines the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential writers of the past two centuries, figures whose homosexuality remained hidden or oblique for much of their lives,...
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Book Details
Pages:272
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / Lgbtq+
Literary Criticism / Modern / 19Th Century
Literary Criticism / Modern / 20Th Century
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.5 x 8.438 x 0.8 Inches
Book Weight:0.637 Pounds
Author Biography
Toibin, Colm (Author)
Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy, Ireland in 1955. He studied history and English at University College Dublin, earning his B.A. in 1975. After graduating he moved to Barcelona for three years and taught at the Dublin School of English.

In 1978 he returned to Dublin and began working on an M.A. in Modern English and American Literature. He wrote for In Dublin, Hibernia, and The Sunday Tribune. He became the Features Editor of In Dublin in 1981, and then a year later accepted the position of Editor for the Irish current affairs magazine Magill.

His first book, Walking Along the Border, was published in 1987 and his first novel, The South, was published in 1990. He wrote for The Sunday Independent as a drama or television critic and political commentator. He writes regularly for The London Review of Books.

He has written several other novels including The Story of the Night, The Blackwater Lightship, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary, and Nora Webster. The Heather Blazing received the 1993 Encore Award and The Master received the 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Stonewall Book Award, and the Lambda Literary Award. He was short listed for the 2015 Folio Prize for his title Nora Webster.

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