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From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo)
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Subject: Re: Recent reading
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Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 16:11:00 EDT
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Will,
	Edmund White has written A BOY'S LIFE (1982?), which got a rave
review by Eliot Fremont-Smith in the NYTimes.  It's a thinly-disguised
autobiography of a gay adolescence, & is I think his best book: he drops
the pretence of trying to be the American Proust.  He also co-authored
THE JOY OF SEX, which for a sex handbook has some great writing.
	The only recent French gay novel I've read is Yves Navarre's
LES LOUKUMS (1972, published in US as SWEET TOOTH by RiverRun Press I
think), an acid satire of New York City using a metaphor of necrophilia;
however, it may make readers wince in these days of AIDS.  Navarre is
openly gay; try his many other novels.  Only a few have been translated
into English, as far as I know.

					Cheers,
					Ron Rizzo