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Radio 4,7 mins

Queer books of the 1990s

Front Row

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Novelist and salon host Damian Barr describes the 1990s as a "bridging decade" where LGBT novels began to include characters whose stories have happy endings. Books selected: Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters The Hours by Michael Cunningham The Secret History by Donna Tartt

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