
Deep House
the gayest love story ever told
$52.00
- Hardcover
416 pages
- Release Date
8 September 2025
Summary
Deep House: A Queer Romp Through History and Love
From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Gay Bar comes a rule-breaking, sweat-soaked, genre-busting story of outlaw love.
It’s 1996, and Jeremy, a young American, has met the British boy of his dreams—just as, amid a media frenzy, US Congress prepares the Defense of Marriage Act, denying same-sex couples rights including immigration. The pair snatch time in forests and deserts, London fashion sho…
Book Details
ISBN-13: | 9780241629789 |
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ISBN-10: | 0241629780 |
Author: | Jeremy Atherton Lin |
Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Imprint: | Allen Lane |
Format: | Hardcover |
Number of Pages: | 416 |
Release Date: | 8 September 2025 |
Weight: | 516g |
Dimensions: | 244mm x 143mm x 37mm |
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Deep House goes from the penseroso of the best history of marriage equality we have to the allegro of a very hot gay love story told in the funniest, most tender way – Edmund WhiteJeremy Atherton Lin artfully combines easily forgotten social history with vivid, intimate accounts of his own love life… bold and sexy – Shon FayeI love this book’s honesty and originality; the intricacy and intimacy with which it studies the politics of love and desire; its huge brain and dirty, beautiful heart – Chris PowerDeep House is that rare and beautiful book—equally illuminating and pleasurable. Luminous… incisive… transcendently sexy…. It is exactly the book we need right now – Melissa FebosThis important book is about two people looking for home, a shared space and a common nationality, and is a shelter for the most intimate observations of lived experience from diverse political headwinds – MendezStylish, sexy, and deeply moving, this blends beautiful prose and incisive social history to stunning effect * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *
About The Author
Jeremy Atherton Lin
Jeremy Atherton Lin is the author of the National Book Critics Circle Award winner Gay Bar- Why We Went Out. His essays appear in numerous places including the Paris Review, the Times Literary Supplement and the Yale Review, for which he was a finalist for the National Magazine Award. His sound programs have been broadcast on NTS Radio. He is based in Los Angeles and East Sussex, England.
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