num_pages: 207
description: In 1886, an architect called Richardson built a house on the South side of Chicago. In 1985, the "Daily Mirror" reported the death of Rock Hudson. Halfway through the century that falls between these dates a man who claims his name is Mr Page sits down by his gas-fire on a snowbound Christmas Eve and sets himself the task of explaining a story that connects these apparently unconnected events. Neil Bartlett's new novel spins a dark and erotic web of conjecture in the gaps of history. It takes its reader from the brittle glamour of the twenties into the violent repression of the fifties; from Mayfair dining rooms to the steam room of a gentlemen's Turkish Bath; from the ordinary world of Mr Page into the strange and unsettling world of the black-haired, well-dressed and immensely wealthy Mr Clive.
language: English
title: Mr Clive and Mr Page
titlecomplete: Mr Clive and Mr Page
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Gay, Contemporary, Historical, Gay Fiction, Queer, Historical Fiction, LGBT
ratings_count: 160
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Whitbread Award
category: Novel, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Men's Fiction
publisher: Serpents Tail