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Bezig met laden... Jack Holmes and His Frienddoor Edmund White
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. As usual, White's prose is stunning and his characters well-drawn, but that wasn't enough to get me through this tale of a straight man's sexual crises. There's a lot of meditations on the differences between straight and gay relationships, which I thought were interesting but would have made a better essay. People with more tolerance than I for the standard character-driven modern novel will probably like this more than I did. The book follows Jack and Will through two decades. Their friendship is both intimate and destructive. Jack is not-so-secretly in love with Will, who enjoys the attention and - for much of time - doesn't really see Jack as an individual. The book used different perspectives tell their joint story as well as their individual ones. Jack's story was one of discovery and evolution. Will seemed to flounder. Altogether an entertaining read. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Traces the decades-long friendship of Jack Holmes and Will Wright, which is marked by Jack's secret love for Will, Will's marriage in spite of conflicted sexual feelings, and the devastating rise of AIDS. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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It's my first Edmund White novel and makes me disinclined to read another.
The novel depicts a friendship between two American men, one gay, one straight, of the generation that came of age in the late 1950s and 60s. They are both privileged and seem to be oblivious to the social or cultural changes that make this such an interesting era of history. But these are not characters who pay attention to things like the Civil Rights movement, or the Vietnam War, let alone the Stonewall Riots.
It also doesn't help matters both of the main characters in this book come across as rather shallow, boring, and narcissistic. And they don't seem to really like one another very much, either.
There are better American novels about the New York gay experience in the 1960s and 70s: "Dancer From the Dance" by Andrew Holleran is one.
(It's probably misleading, and maybe even irresponsible, to suggest as White clearly does that gay men who are "tops" do not need to worry about contracting HIV/AIDS.) ( )