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Edition:
Unabridged
ISBN:
9781508294726
Content:
" The Advocate 's Best Gay Novel of 2019A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice O, The Oprah Magazine 's Best LGBTQ Books That'll Change the Literary Landscape in 2019 The Wall Street Journal' s Ten Books You'll Want to Read this Spring Out 's Best Queer Books of April 2019 TheSkimm 's LGBTQ+ books to celebrate Pride Stunning and heart-gripping. 8212 Andr233 Aciman, author of Call Me By Your Name The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson8212 the French Brokeback Mountain ( Elle )8212 about an affair between two teenage boys in 1984 France, translated with subtle beauty and haunting lyricism by the iconic and internationally acclaimed actress/writer Molly Ringwald.We drive at high speed along back roads, through woods, vineyards, and oat fields. The bike smells like gasoline and makes a lot of noise, and sometimes I'm frightened when the wheels slip on the gravel on the dirt road, but the only thing that matters is that I'm holding on to him, that I'm holding on to him outside .Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. What follows is a look back at the relationship he's never forgotten, a hidden affair with a gorgeous boy named Thomas during their last year of high school. Without ever acknowledging they know each other in the halls, they steal time to meet in secret, carrying on a passionate, world-altering affair. Dazzlingly rendered in English by Ringwald in her first-ever translation, Besson's powerfully moving coming-of-age story captures the eroticism and tenderness of first love8212 and the heartbreaking passage of time."
Content:
Biographisches: "Philippe Besson is an author, screenwriter, and playwright. His first novel, In the Absence of Men , was awarded the Emmanuel-Roblè, Prize in 2001, and he is also the author of, among others, Late Autumn (Grand Prize RTL-Lire), A Boy from Italy , and The Atlantic House . In 2017 he published Lie With Me , a #1 French bestseller that won the the Maisons de la Presse Prize, and A Character from a Novel , an intimate portrait of Emmanuel Macron during his presidential campaign. His novels have been translated into twenty different languages." Biographisches: "Molly Ringwald's writing has appeared in The New Yorker , The New York Times , The Guardian , and Vogue , and she is the author of the bestselling novel-in-stories When It Happens to You . She previously translated Lie with Me , a novel by Philippe Besson." Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: February 18, 2019 Besson ( In the Absence of Men ) rehashes familiar tropes about secret teenage gay romance in this moving but unoriginal novel. Novelist Philippe, who shares many biographical details with the author, falls into a reverie about his first experience of romance when he spots a young man who looks just like his first lover from a couple decades earlier. Philippe, a high achieving 17-year-old student, frets about being gay in 1984 Barbezieux, France. Thomas Andrieu, a much cooler student and the son of a farmer, unexpectedly approaches Philippe with an invitation to lunch. Eating far away from the crowds, Thomas boldly offers a clandestine relationship. Philippe and Thomas pass notes with places and times for their meetings and pretend to not know each other otherwise. The adult Philippe relishes the memories in richly described erotic encounters. Their initially silent trysts blossom into conversation and love, but always remain secret. Thomas abruptly leaves town after school, leaving Philippe to wonder what happened until the chance encounter with the young doppelg228"
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