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| P-P Hartnett |
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Ever placed a contact ad? Thought about it?
Week after week, people offer themselves up for grabs in the small ads. Author P-P Hartnett began his research by placing an ad for a fictitious character, keen to see the replies, the photographs, the handwriting... the fantasies. A cult gay bestseller in the UK, Call Me has been republished by St Martins Press in the USA. |
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P-P Hartnett grew up in West London. His photography has been featured in The Sunday Times, The Face, ES magazine and Time Out, and exhibited in New York, Tokyo and London. His second novel I Want to Fuck You is also available from Pulp Books.
P-P Hartnett likes budgies. He no longer lives in London.
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| "A book of rare courage and charm, handling sensitive, often disturbing material with lyrical deftness. I found myself wishing Peter-Paul Hartnett elevated beyond cult status to take his place beside Joe Orton and Morissey in the cultural pantheon." | G-Spot | |
| "Very nasty. Very 90's. Very much the sort of book people will be talking about for some time to come." | Time Out | |
| "Hartnett's short-fire vivid prose finds a host of pen-pals with a penchant for fantasies, filthy and funny." | Gay Times | |
| "From punks, Goths and New Romantics to today's Ecstasy-driven ravers, the photographer P-P Hartnett spent 20 years documenting midnight's children and their club cultureŠ His investigations into 'loneliness, isolation, sexual compulsion' even led him to contact serial killer Dennis Nilsen, visiting him in prison and receiving more than 100 letters and paintings from the man who murdered over a dozen young men.." | The Independent | |
| "P-P Hartnett had the bright idea of placing an ad in the pink papers, waiting for the replies to flow through his letter box." | i-D | |
| "Many of the meetings which follow are weird, and some are deeply disturbing. Hartnett gives us an insightful insider's account of 'doomed but beautiful wretches waiting to be wined dined and sixty-nined', exposing a world a world of inadequacy and loneliness." | Daily Telegraph |
1 901072 002 / NOV 96 / £7.99