wild@sun.uucp (Will Doherty) (07/17/85)
Thanx for the fascinating reference to Amory's Loon trilogy.
I'll have to try to find it.
Recently, I finished reading Edmund White's "Forgetting Elena,"
which is much more like "Nocturnes for the King of Naples" than
"States of Desire." Has White written anything else?
I also read (pseudonym) James Barr's "Quatrefoil," which I found
fascinating.
Now I'm looking for more fun reading.
Also, a friend of mine is going to France this summer and has
agreed to pick up some literature for me. If anyone knows of
any excellent lesbian and gay fiction or non-fiction that appeared
originally in French, please let me know.
Will Doherty
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rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo) (07/17/85)
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