Cover art for Love in a Dark Time
Published
Picador, July 2025
ISBN
9781035055005
Format
Softcover, 288 pages
Dimensions
19.7cm × 13.2cm × 1.8cm

Love in a Dark Time Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar

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In Love in a Dark Time, Colm Toibin looks at the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Linked by the common thread of their sexualities, his subjects range from figures such as Oscar Wilde, born in the 1850s, to Pedro Almodovar, born nearly a hundred years later.

Toibin studies how a changing world impacted on the lives of people who, on the whole, kept their homosexuality hidden, and reveals that the laws of desire changed everything for them, both in their private lives and in the spirit of their work.

Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.

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