Time and Place by Alan Sheridan
The narrator of this extraordinary narrative is Mark Sheridan. Born into the theatrical family of his uncle, R.B Sheridan, he recounts his years with a travelling theatre company, and his turbulent love affair with Esmond, a young actor. Interwoven are flashbacks to his turbulent earlier life and a pre-war world long vanished, his childhood in China, his schooldays in Paris, the months in St Petersburg at the beginning of the 1905 revolution; threading through them all, his awakening sexuality. For men such as he, these were dangerous times. Ruin and imprisonment were their oft companions. TIME AND PLACE is the author's desire to reclaim their lives, to write the book that Marcel Proust and E.M. Forster were unable to; a picaresque journey of a young homosexual in the early nineteenth century and his attempt to understand the unstoppable currents of his life.
'A strange, erudite and intriguing work, hovering between fact and fiction, chronicle and memoir..The result is convincing but curiously disconcerting, as though we were watching a familiar play in the theatre from the wings or indeed from the flies. The narrator describes his erotic experiences and his passion for the theatre with a wealth of frank and sometimes startling detail, and his apologia, in the last pages, is a stark and touching reminder of the literary and legal constraints which bound his contemporaries' MARGARET DRABBLE 'If John Geilgud had written his unexpurgated memoirs, they might have borne a passing resemblance to this elegant, if somewhat eccentric, novel' Sunday Telegraph 24/8 The people, the events and the setting of this tale are utterly convincing ... thoroughly enjoyable ... a wonderful read. Ian McKellen
Alan Sheridan has translated over fifty books including works by Sartre, Foucault and Robbe-Grillet. His widely acclaimed biography of Andre Gide: A LIFE IN THE PRESENT was published in 1998.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780743231954 |
| ISBN 10 | 0743231953 |
| Title | Time and Place |
| Author | Alan Sheridan |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Year published | 2004-08-02 |
| Number of pages | 496 |
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