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A review by femke495
Our Young Man by Edmund White
5.0
It’s really a “modern day Dorian Grey” and it was excellent.
The main character is very unlikable but the themes in this novel make him so real. Guy has only ever had and known his beauty, so of course he will do everything to “stay young for ever” also, any other character in this book is pretty unlikable too, but again, so human and real.
And Edmund White can write! I couldn’t put it down. In only 282 pages he describes the whole life of a gay model in the midst of the aids crisis in minor detail, without getting boring.
The main character is very unlikable but the themes in this novel make him so real. Guy has only ever had and known his beauty, so of course he will do everything to “stay young for ever” also, any other character in this book is pretty unlikable too, but again, so human and real.
And Edmund White can write! I couldn’t put it down. In only 282 pages he describes the whole life of a gay model in the midst of the aids crisis in minor detail, without getting boring.