Pity by Andrew McMillan

£14.99

Bookseller Review by Elle:

Spanning three generations of men in a Northern mining town, ‘Pity’ is a poetic and empathetic exploration of identity, masculinity, family and love. Andrew McMillan explores how life has changed in these types of towns, and how things have changed (and not changed) for queer men. 

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The town was once a hub of industry. A place where men toiled underground in darkness, picking and shovelling in the dust and the sleck. It was dangerous and back-breaking work but it meant something. Once, the town provided, it was important, it had purpose. But what is it now? Brothers Alex and Brian have spent their whole life in the town where their father lived and his father, too. Still reeling from the collapse of his personal life, Alex, is now in his middle age, and must reckon with a part of his identity he has long tried to mask. Simon is the only child of Alex and had practically no memory of the mines. Now in his twenties and working in a call centre, he derives passion from his side hustle in sex work and his weekly drag gigs.

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Hardback