Mars-Jones, Adam
Mars-Jones, Adam ( 1954 – ),London-born novelist, short story writer and critic, educated at Cambridge, whose fiction includes Lantern Lecture ( 1981 ), a collection of three stories, one of which, ‘Hoosh-Mi’, features the queen and her corgis in fatal conjunction; Monopolies of Loss ( 1992 ), stories in a more sombre and predominantly realist vein, based on the AIDS epidemic, some of which first appeared in The Darker Proof: Stories from a Crisis ( 1987 , with Edmund White ), and a novel, The Waters of Thirst ( 1993 ), a poignant gay suburban tragi-comedy about sexual obsession and kidney failure. He edited Mae West is Dead: Recent Lesbian and Gay Fiction ( 1983 ).
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