Pity, appearing 40 years after the 1984-85 miners' strike, which convulsed parts of the UK and divided working-class communities, draws on three generations of men from the same family whose lives have been dominated by the local pit, closed since the end of the strike, near Barnsley in South Yorkshire, McMillan's home town.
Pity is a book about male identity and sexuality whether anxiously concealed or proudly open and about the ravages of history and politics, most significantly on the working-class towns and cities of South Yorkshire such as Barnsley and Sheffield.
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