| Author: | Warwick Collins |
| Isbn: | 0-7145-3028-X |
| Pub Date: | April 1, 1997 |
| Publisher: | Marion Boyars |
Gents is a 1997 novel by Warwick Collins.[1] [2] It is set in the unlikely environment of a "Gentlemen's" toilet, somewhere in London.
The story describes the lives of three West Indian immigrants who run a public urinal in London. Collins claimed it was stimulated in part by his memories of apartheid when he lived as a child in South Africa. The New York Times reviewer wrote: "Mr. Collins is able to express, deftly, several contrasting views of homosexuality. ..., resolves to make up his own mind about alternative life styles and does precisely that, with a mixture of love and logic."[3]