Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall Author:Neil Bartlett At three in the morning, to the sound of slow music on the piano, beneath a ceiling shining with artificial stars, in the darkest corner of the best bar in the city, with everybody watching, two lovers fall into each others arms... one is older and wiser: one is just nineteen. — Then follow the rites and ceremonies of a love affair and a happy ma... more »rriage. From the kisses of courtship to the reading of the banns; from the wedding to the lovemaking to the moment when the first child is cradled in the loving parents' arms, everything in this story is in its proper place. Except that this marriage is a marriage between two men. Just as Neil Bartlett's first book, Who Was That Man?, paid homage to nineteenth-century gay London, Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall recasts earlier twentieth century fiction into a decisively contemporary account of how men in love might imagine their lives.« less
I gave up after about 75 pages. My life is too short to spend time with such a poor effort in my opinion. I put it up for grabs and hope someone else may think better of it.