Skin Lane
By: Neil Bartlett
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781852429195
Subjects: Englisch; Roman; Gay men; Fiction
Description: At 47, Mr. F's working life on London's Skin Lane is one governed by calm, precision and routine. So, when he starts to have frightening, recurring nightmares, he does his best to ignore them. The images that appear in his dream are disturbing - Mr. F can't for the life of him think where they have come from. After all, he's a perfectly ordinary middle-aged man. As London's crooked backstreets begin to swelter in the long, hot summer of 1967, Mr. F's nightmare becomes an obsession. A chance encounter adds a face to the body that nightly haunts him, and the torments of his sweat-drenched nights lead him - and the reader - deeper into a terrifying labyrinth of rage, desire and shame.