Description: A Brand New ARC! LOVE, LEDA BY MARK HYATT! Advance Reader Copy! Newly discovered in the author’s archives and published for the first time in the UK in 2023, this portrait of queer, working class London drifts from coffee shop to house party, in search of the next tryst. Leda is lost. He spends his days steeped in ennui, watching the hours pass, waiting for the night to arrive. Trysts in the rubble of a bombsite follow hours spent in bed with near strangers, as Leda seeks out intimacy in unlikely places. Semi-homeless and estranged from his family of origin, he relies on the support of his chosen one: a community of older gay men and divorced women who feed and clothe him, gently encouraging him to find a foothold in a society which excludes him at every turn. And then there is Daniel, a buttoned-up man of the Lord, for whom Leda nurses an unrequited obsession—one which sends him spiraling into self-destruction. Pre-dating the British Sexual Offences Act of 1967, Love Leda was first published in 2023 in the UK. This long-lost novel is a portrait of London’s Soho that is now lost, an important document of queer working-class life from a voice long overlooked. Mark Hyatt was born in South London in 1940 and died by suicide outside Blackburn in 1972. His selected poems, So Much For Life, edited by Sam Ladkin and Luke Roberts, is forthcoming with Nightboat Books (2023). Hyatt received little or no formal education and learned to read and write as an adult. Love, Leda (c. 1965) is his only known novel. Read it now in trade paperback before the hardback release date of OCTOBER 2024.Shipping is Media mail for $4.63
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Narrative Type: Fiction
Original Language: English
Intended Audience: Adults
Type: Novel
Book Title: Love, Leda
Number of Pages: 144 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Topic: Lgbt / Gay
Publication Year: 2024
Item Height: 0.5 in
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 6.7 Oz
Author: Mark Hyatt
Item Length: 8 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
