Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life by Michael Nott Nelson Mandela A love story and social

A love story and social satire set in the parallel and seemingly unconnected worlds of the British aristocracy and high finance

judgment and eye for detail are second to none' Sunday Times'Harris writes with a skill and ingenuity that few other novelists can match' Financial Times'Harris is a master of historical fiction

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Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life by Michael Nott Nelson Mandela A love story and socialThom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life is a landmark study of one of England's and America's most innovative and revolutionary poets. Michael Nott chronicles, for the first time, Gunn's largely undocumented life: his childhood in Kent and London, his mother's suicide, and his mind opening education at Cambridge, where he read Shakespeare and John Donne, wrote his first book, Fighting Terms, and met the man who was to become his life partner Mike Kitay. In his