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Sinossi
In una New York frenetica, dove ancora impazza la disco music e la bizzarra moda degli anni settanta, vive Guy, un modello francese di trent'anni con il misterioso potere di non invecchiare mai. Bellissimo, affascinante, simpatico, Guy è amato e coccolato da tutti e il suo corpo sembra incarnare le universali fantasie di bellezza e virtù. In un gioco perenne di conflitto e attrazione verso il Nuovo Mondo, Guy conduce una vita fiabesca, lontana dalle preoccupazioni materiali più pressanti, divisa tra lusso, feste e sesso sfrenato. Ma con l'avvento dell'era reaganiana e soprattutto con il drammatico diffondersi dell'Aids, Guy è assediato dalla vita vera, verso la quale lo trascinano alcuni incontri fondamentali: Fred, un produttore cinematografico, sposato e con figli, che a sessantasei anni vorrebbe diventare un gay energico e attraente; Andrés, un giovane studioso di Storia dell'arte, innamorato follemente di Guy; e infine Kevin, un diciannovenne del Minnesota di cui Guy diventerà l'amante e il mentore.
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- Pagine: 301
- Data di uscita: 16-06-2016
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It's bad. Really bad. I was embarrassed for the author. The characters are thinly drawn and their actions are not credible. Most of the novel revolves around the narcissistic protagonist and the author does nothing to show us why we should be interested in him. The plot is virtually non-existent. The Leggi tutto
Our Young Man is surprisingly different from White's other works. It's strangely detached, written in a cold, transparent style. There is little to no connection created between the reader and its characters, which are of types few of us would identify with, although we easily recognize them from ot Leggi tutto
Our Young Man is at once a delicious gossipy breeze of a novel, a sort of luxe beach read, and a deeply surreal story that seems almost experimental in form. It follows a beautiful, eternally youthful Frenchman, Guy, from his poor rural childhood through a lengthy and successful modelling career and Leggi tutto
It takes a brave writer to stage a comedy setpiece in the St Vincent AIDS ward in New York in the 1980s. There are certain things that comedy seems barred from tackling: 9/11, the Holocaust, Nelson Mandela and Apartheid, HIV/AIDS. But Edmund White knows instinctively that absurdity is the flipside o Leggi tutto
White's writing style is strange now; almost flat, deceptively so. I liked the way this novel evolved. "Our young man" is not really the French model, Guy, but increasingly is Andres, Kevin, Kevin's brother, Andres' nephew and so on. "Our young man" in that sense conveys a layered and nurturing ment Leggi tutto
Although the book is a pleasant enough read it is also terribly written and full of careless inaccuracies in style, plot and structure (something particularly unacceptable from an author of the supposed stature of Mr White, who acknowledges the involvement of no less that FOUR editors on this projec Leggi tutto
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