Edmund White: Our Young Man

Well sort of interesting but could have been more so. Focuses on an apparently ageless model and the havoc he both wittingly and unwittingly wreaks on those around him. Shades of Dorian Gray but without the mysterious supernatural element and also without the gradual decline into the abyss which made Gray intriguing as there was a good person going bad there ( if I recall correctly) rather than someone who in terms of nature and character started the way he ends. I stand to b corrected on this by the way; been an age since I read the original.

I felt that while it made sense in one way, that he was a model, the essential vapidity of that role worked against dramatic interest in the story.

There's a fair and vivid sense of the worlds it encompasses...NYC/80's and on/Fire Island A scene gays etc etc. The sexual scenes are effectively graphic although at times with a somewhat Kerri g quality which is slightly creepy particularly in the latter part with the entry of Kevin and his twin. A bit too redolent of much of the mucky gay press coverage of Tom Daley's early career on sites like Queerty.

Ok I suppose but did have the effect of feeling somewhat formulaic.