Fans of TS Eliot and Moonlight will love this highly recommended book ScreencraftOh my God this book This book drop everything youre doing and start flipping pages right now Tissie Bookshelves Teacups blog The extraordinary career and devastating life of TS Eliot TS Eliot is a hollow man trapped in a dreary world He works at a bank a slave to the clock the same routine day after day While Londons elite enjoy a Great Gatsby lifestyle and poets like Robert Frost are rock stars attracting thousands of fans to each reading Mr Eliot walks past life peering at it through cracks or around corners Only in his imagination does the world drip with color Then one day he comes across Jack an out and proud gay man being badly beaten and something compels him to intervene Life will never be the same Jack introduces Mr Eliot to the gay underground of early twentiethcentury London and to feelings Mr Eliot had crammed down and locked away And with freedom comes poetry Extraordinary poetry that takes London by storm But as Mr Eliots fame increases pressure for conformity does as well Religious intolerance fascisms increasingly popular message of traditional values and the allure of untold success present him with a decision that could have devastating consequences The Wasteland is the untold story of TS Eliot his secret struggle with being gay the people left in the wake of his meteoric career trajectory and the madness that helped produce his greatest workFor poetry lovers and thrill seekers The ride through the mind of a mad literary genius will leave you dazed and confused and highly entertained Mary Wollstonecrafty Amazon reviewer Wow This is an amazing bookwholly original Briskly paced pageturning action Screencraft This is a wild wild poetic ride If youre an Eliot fan especially if you know why he used the middle initial read this book If youve always wondered about dear Tom read this book Julie B Amazon reviewer The writing is lyrical and colorful but clearly still prose for anyone who shies away from poetry and the story is engaging and captivating occasionally fantastical and trippy and explores the pressure to conform to societal norms Amazon reviewer