Love in a Dark Time by Colm Toibin

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.

In this perceptive and rich collection of essays, Colm Toibin investigates the lives as well as the work of homosexual writers and artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

About the Author: Colm Toibin was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of eleven novels, including The Master, Brooklyn, and The Magician, and two collections of stories. He has been three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2021, he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature. Toibin was appointed the Laureate for Irish Fiction 2022-2024.

27 Mar 2025
 

Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar by Colm Toibin ISBN 9781035055005