\'An astonishing love story, beautifully told\' Time Out \'I am sixteen.
In the Absence of Men is a stunning first novel to discover this pride season: in its daring in representation and celebration of gay sexuality, in the beauty of its prose and in its delicacy of feeling..
All of these men will suffer, and Vincent will lose the last vestiges of his childhood innocence.
As both relationships develop Vincent intuitively tries to keep his passions separate, but over the weeks of indolent Parisian summer and far-off war, confidences are made, absences endured, secrets revealed.
In that brutal summer, Vincent\'s beauty and precocity captivate two men: Marcel, thirty years his senior, a writer and celebrated socialite; and Arthur, the twenty-one year old son of one of the servants, who is now a soldier at the front.
Vincent is aristocratic and privileged, frequenting the salons of Paris while France is at war and the city almost deserted of men.
Vincent is sixteen, on the brink of manhood.
I am as old as the century\' It is 1916. \'An astonishing love story, beautifully told\' Time Out \'I am sixteen
