Books shelved as gay-g-of-age: Dumb Jock by Jeff Erno, The Screwed Up Life of Charlie the Send by Drew Fergon, Call Me By Your Name by André Aci...
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GAY COMG OF AGE BOOKS
* coming of age gay novels *
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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. " Maybe that's bee Baldw said the book isn't actually about beg gay.
GAY COMG OF AGE
"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. 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.