(Duckworth / Arcade, USA, 1997).
Wilde’s heirs fight for his memory at a time of hysteria and prejudice.
‘Hoare has identified one of the key moments in the formation of the modern world, and he has documented it with dazzling brilliance’.
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5 am: the hardness of the January sea, stripped bare and black by the cold I get out: if I stood still long enough, I'd be covered in frost
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