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I don’t rell readg a novel which so specifilly tails a particular layed adulthood gay men of a certa age, those who grew up durg the AIDS crisis, who enuntered the fear mongerg and shamg of that time, the trma of watchg men, possible future versns of themselv, dyg. Osr and Sebastian are each alg wh this their own way: Osr wh partyg and lamentg what he se as the ath of gay culture, ristg assiatn, and Sebastian wh a sire to nnect and settle down.

GAY G-OF-AGE NOVELS FEATURG A BRIEF AND PASSNATE SECRET LOVE AFFAIR, TOLD RETROSPECTIVELY BEE 'S ALL ABOUT THE YEARNG AND BTER(SWEET?) TRAGEDY, I GUS

This is an uneasy and sgular novel of gay life. It should be a gay classic, and I hope ’s reprted the near future. Recently, Alan Hollghurst said the gay novel is ad.

"There was an urgency, a novelty to the whole thg, " said the gay thor, who won the Man Booker Prize for The Le of Bety.

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" Maybe that's bee Baldw said the book isn't actually about beg gay. "Gvanni's Room is not really about homosexualy, " said Baldw a 1980 terview about queer life. Go Tell It on the Mounta, for example, is not about a church, and Gvanni is not really about homosexualy.

13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH

SJ Sdu, thor of Marriage of a Thoand Li, lled , "One of the first Anglophone works to challenge the trope of the sad/suicidal gays who die at the end, this book gave a blueprt of what queer fictn uld look like. Forster (A Passage to India, A Room Wh a View, Howards End) wrote the benchmark gay novel Mrice cir 1913, was published posthumoly a lh tale of manners, posn, and sire, the tular character meets and falls for his classmate Clive while at Oxford.

The pair embark on a two-year affair until Clive leav Mrice to marry a woman and live out his proscribed life as part of the land gentry, leavg Mrice shambl and seekg to cure his Forster's novel do not end gay tragedy. The thor of Night Drop, Marshall Thornton lled the novel "the origal gay romance.

Alan Hollghurst famoly qutned the future of the gay novel this year, which is strikg sce he's often viewed as helpg make queer books accsible to a mastream dience. Hollghurst set his pen on the sexual hypocrisi of homophobic policians, many of whom had their own discretns behd closed doors.