I normally write my own book reviews, but this one review was so spot on, and it reflected my own thoughts so closely, that I'm including a link to it instead:http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/267985179
I was reassured by the fact that this book landed on the Carmen Callil and Colm Toibin Modern Library list of Best Novels in English from 1950-1998. To see the complete list click on the link: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/27388-callil-and-toibin-the-modern-library-200-best-novels-in-english-si...
I thought this was a great book, very well written, involving and socially relevant, and I’m surprised because I was kind of cool on it at the start, and a (gay) friend of mine asked why I wanted to read a book he found “suffocatingly gay.” I don’t know. Because it tells a good story? Because the wr...
Prix Booker de 2004, ce troisième roman d’Alan Hollinghurst raconte la vie d’un jeune homme à l’aube de sa vie adulte à Londres durant les années Thatcher. Les conservateurs sont reportés au pouvoir et vivent la “belle vie” alors que chômage, récession économique, sida sont dans la bergerie. Nick Gu...
[These notes were made in 1993:]. You would not have believed the silly song-and-dance I went through with myself to get a copy of this anthology of sexually explicit short fiction about gay men. Determined not to cross the threshold of Glad Day myself (why? would I turn into a pumpkin?) I dropped ...
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