Mates

by Tom Wakefield

Gay Men's Press, 1983, [First Edition], hardcover, dustjacket, ISBN 0907040284

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, ex-library with stamps to front and back endpapers, sticker residue to back endpaper, contact covered dustjacket attached to covers, sticker to spine of jacket (see photographs) 

'Cyril and Lem meet up doing National Service in the 1950's.  So begins their life together, reflecting the ups and downs, changes and continuities in the position of gay men over a quarter of a century.  Comic and sad, tender and fierce by turns, Mates affirms just how extraordinary the lives of ordinary gays can be.  A story of survival, sensitivity told by a novelist with a well established reputation.'