Shameless by Paul Burston

Shameless by Paul Burston

'Fast, wild, sexy and outrageously funny. I loved it!' Russell T. Davies Martin is kind, decent and good-looking. And look where it's got him. His boyfriend of four years has run off with a male prostitute. His friends John and Caroline are no help - John prefers infamy to sympathy and Caroline is too busy trying to work out if her wonderful, sensitive boyfriend is a closet case. And to top it all, Martin's hippie father turns up to stay, wearing his 'Proud to be an Embarrassing Parent' badge. To escape, Martin jumps head first into hedonism, throwing himself into the gay club scene, a world of drugs and muscles, hard bodies and harder music. Meanwhile Caroline is learning that being Shameless has its price, and so does she... How long can they keep up with the lifestyle? And can they find the man of their dreams when sex has become a substitute for love, and pleasure is measured in beats per minute...?

A wickedly funny comedy centring around the lives and loves of Martin, a gay man who's just been dumped and his two best friends, eager to help him our but not quite sure how to go about it* RED *
A juicy QUEER AS FOLK- like read. * COMPANY *
Wickedly funny. * HEAT *
Straddles low and high brow, working as both a colonically challenged BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY and a coruscating expose of the drug-infested urban gay experience, so often mistaked for liberating hedonism. * THE FACE *

Paul Burston's work has appeared in TIME OUT, SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY and on CHANNEL 4. The INDEPENDENT named him 'one of the 40 most influential gay men in Britain'. He is also a curator in residence at the South Bank.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780349114798
ISBN 10	034911479X
Title	Shameless
Author	Paul Burston
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little, Brown Book Group
Year published	2002-05-02
Number of pages	288
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.