Graham Robb

Coming out of the class closet

The problems of being both gay and working class in bourgeois society are exposed in Didier Eribon’s confessional memoir

  • Returning to Reims

    Didier Eribon, translated by Michael Lucey

    Allen Lane, pp. 249

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