I found this quite a difficult book to really get to grips with. It felt like there was a lot of subtext and things that were being hinted at, but just a little too far out of my reach.

The writing style itself was interesting - long and rambling descriptions, followed by solid, punctuation-less dialogue. Repeat ad infinitum. And then in the middle of the book is an interlude where we read a play apparently written by the protagonist, 30 years later.

It was hard to sort of fit all of the jigsaw pieces together of what the author was actually trying to achieve. 

On its face it was a fairly straight forward tale about a gay man living in an oppressive time, who has a short fling with another man. But it felt like the author was trying to convey more than that (especially with the flash-forward play), but for me I don't think it fully landed.