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New York, 1984. The city is just waking up to the coming horror of AIDS. After publishing two masterpieces, British novelist Hugo Hunter - widely regarded as the most important gay writer of the 20th century - is running out of money. Then he receives an extraordinary offer: two million dollars for a memoir and a new novel. The money would solve all of Hugo''s problems, except for one thing. He wrote neither of his novels. How far will he go to produce a third? Featuring an astonishing cast of dazzling glitterati - from Gore Vidal to James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Elizabeth Bowen and George Orwell - Objects of Desire is a sweeping history of 20th century literature and gay life, and a book about writers, agents and editors, lovers and friends. Moving, funny and disturbing in equal parts, Objects of Desire confronts the present with the dark secrets of its own past, and asks the question: who is good and who is bad - and who is telling the truth? *** Praise for Neil Blackmore ''An astounding story . . . I relished every page.'' SIR IAN McKELLAN ''One of the most original voices in historical fiction today.'' THE TIMES ''Compellingly real.'' DAILY MAIL
About the author
Neil Blackmore is the author of five novels. His work has been acclaimed for its radical redrawing of the historical fiction form and the parameters of queer historical fiction. His third novel, The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle, was shortlisted for the Polari Prize for LGBTQ+ Fiction, and he has been celebrated as 'one of the most original voices in historical fiction today' (The Times). He lives in London.
