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«Non è che per me Colin ha perso la testa, ha perso l’equilibrio». A chi vuole saperlo – gli abituali dei suoi poker, ad esempio – ecco come Ray ricostruisce il suo incontro con Colin. Una versione laconica eppure del tutto aderente a quella, più sentimentale, di Colin. Che la domenica del suo diciottesimo compleanno si era trovato ad arrampicarsi su Box Hill, come sempre affollata di biker; che non aveva visto le lunghe gambe di Ray, addormentato contro un albero; e che gli era, tipico di Colin, franato addosso. Comincia così, con questo incidente, una storia sull’amore e le sue conseguenze, non importa se comiche o strazianti, fra le più brusche e per fortuna meno ortodosse di questi anni. Ma dopo averla letta – e verosimilmente riletta, difficile liberarsi, o volersi liberare, di Colin – si capisce anche troppo bene, che non poteva cominciare in nessun altro modo.
- ISBN: 1281123013
- Casa Editrice: Orville Press
- Pagine: 144
- Data di uscita: 21-02-2023
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Truly the cruelest thing I’ve read this side of the Marquis de Sade . The soul crushing humiliation narrator Colin encounters takes the breath away. Someone here said that Mars-Jones was depathologizing BDSM. What? Moreover, after Colin’s debasement, which he apparently finds unremarkable, I lost all Leggi tutto
Okay this book was so messy and unenjoyable, I’m crying and shaking and not in a good way. I just don’t like how so many novels about gay men are about gay men in unhealthy, abusive relationships in which the abuse remains unaddressed?? This novel features a young gay man who falls into an obsessive Leggi tutto
Box Hill is a short, conversational novella charting the relationship between teenage Colin and an enigmatic older man, Ray, whom he meets at the Surrey landmark (and popular biker hangout) of the title. They meet on Colin's 18th birthday; Ray moves Colin into his flat that day. They begin a sadomas Leggi tutto
box hill was a very interesting read! i hadn't heard of it ahead of coming across it at the library, so i had no clue what to expect. it follows the narrator, colin on his 18th birthday when he meets a biker, ray, who is significantly older than him, in box hill. he has his first sexual experience w Leggi tutto
To this day I can’t see a fat kid in shorts without wanting to rush over and give himwhat comfort I can. To tell him it won’t always be like this Adam Mars-Jones’s Box Hill, subtitled “a story of low self-esteem” was the winner of the second Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize in 2019. It opens in 1975 Leggi tutto
I had only read Mars-Jones' debut novel before this, his latest, and while his prose style is readable and engaging, this slight book doesn't quite add up. It holds one's interest, moves swiftly at little more than 100 pages, and SEEMS to be heading to some epiphany ... and then just ends without mu Leggi tutto
Esta novela corta, que bien podría tener un par de rombos en la cubierta, cuenta una sórdida historia en la que la belleza emerge de entre una inquietante suciedad. Un joven se topa con un motero que le introduce en su mundillo y con el que comienza una relación enfermiza basada en la dominación y e Leggi tutto
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