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In his second novel, Jonathan Keates penetrates the kind of educated, middle-middle-class circles familiar from Patrick Gale's work, although a closer parallel would be Alan Hollinghurst's The Spell, with its contrasted urban gay and village lives (and sure enough it gets a name check in chapter 2). The danger with this sort of novel is that the leading characters are, by their very nature, perfectly awful--the kind of bitter, not-quite-successful, over-educated, over-articulate, over-confident wine-bores and opera-snobs you pray you won't end up next to at a dinner party. But Keates lightens the burden with his witty evocation of the games gay men play in saunas, backrooms and on the streets, perfectly capturing the bittersweet lost moments of contact that could have been the one. Smile Please is at heart a thoughtful analysis of the unspoken--and unspeakable?--mismatch between sex, love and domesticity in contemporary queer London: it deserves to be read. --Alan Stewart
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. VINTAGESTAN BOOKS Title: Smile Please by Jonathan Keates. 2000. 1st Edition Author: Jonathan Keates Publisher: Chatto and Windus. London Year Published: 2000 Edition: 1st Edition Dimensions: 22cm x 14cm Binding type: Hardcover ISBN: 9780701166380 Notes: SKU: VSS / 171 / G / 3137 / 2170 / BW Condition Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Creasing, handling marks, marks. Book condition: Good. Age toning, handling marks, marks Binding: Intact Pages: 330 pages. Seller Inventory # 002170