It is certainly true to say that Uninvited by Richard House [ISBN 1 85242 785 5] is well almost evocatively written, though it is a bleak, depressing and unrelieved view of an urban lifestyle of a gay man on the breadline and without much of a chance to rise above it (or even the aspiration). The central character’s life starts and ends in the same uncertain place.
It is certainly true to say that Uninvited by Richard House [ISBN 1 85242 785 5] is well almost evocatively written, though it is a bleak, depressing and unrelieved view of an urban lifestyle of a gay man on the breadline and without much of a chance to rise above it (or even the aspiration). The central character’s life starts and ends in the same uncertain place.
Ian Gordon follows his childhood friend to London and is living in a squat with another couple of friends when they are going to be evicted. Ian is likely to lose his part-time job – mainly through lack of interest and poor timekeeping. Around him violent things happen and he is always not safe. He gets a job as a courier on a bike and strikes up a new friendship, but this does not appear to put him on the road to any further settled lifestyle.
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