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Lovetown / Michal Witkowski ; translated by W. Martin.

Title
Lovetown / Michal Witkowski ; translated by W. Martin.
Author
Witkowski, Michał, 1975-
Publication
London : Portobello Books, 2010, c2009.

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Additional Authors
Martin, William.
Description
343 p.; 21 cm.
Summary
Growing up queer in a communist state, queens Patricia and Lucretia spent the 70s and 80s underground, finding glamour in the squalor, strutting their stuff in parks and public toilets, seducing hard Soviet soldiers, preying on drunks, and seeing their friends die of AIDS. Today they're about to hit Lovetown, a homo-haven, populated by a younger generation of emancipated gays, who are out and proud in their post-communist paradise: suntanned, sculpted and vigorously spending the pink euro. This is the story of the clash between old and new gays as they meet in a place where anything goes, but some things have also been lost.
Uniform Title
Lubiewo. English
Alternative Title
Lubiewo.
Subject
  • Communism and sex > Fiction
  • Gay men > Poland > Fiction
Genre/Form
Fiction
Language (note)
  • Translated from the Polish.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9781846270512 (pbk.)
  • 1846270510 (pbk.)