Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!bbncca!rrizzo From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Re: Recent reading Message-ID: <1495@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 16:11:00 EDT Article-I.D.: bbncca.1495 Posted: Wed Jul 17 16:11:00 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 20:37:04 EDT References: <2427@sun.uucp> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 15 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