1/13/2023 0 Comments Queer as folk david![]() As someone who's sat with my kids watching hundreds of episodes of TV teen-soaps like Saved by the Bell, Lizzie McGuire and Oh So Raven, I felt I was on home territory. You have to get along nice 'n' easy with US high school talk to really love this book. We are at high school and coming up to Valentine's day and the dowager's dance, which apparently needs to be "architected". The book is set in a totally familiar now, but because it is how the world might or could be if straights weren't so damned prejudiced, it is in effect the future. ![]() Fans of gay literature will perhaps tell me otherwise, but Levithan must surely be breaking new ground by producing what is in effect a gay utopia intended for a young popular audience. He's written a book that cunningly superimposes some previously unwritten-about feelings and behaviour on to a thoroughly familiar frame: the vicissitudes of love between teenage boys, told as if it were a Sweet Valley High story. What happens next is one of the great unanswered mysteries of fiction: does reading change anything? I would guess David Levithan hopes that it does. If you think you're living in an imperfect world, you can write a book about a better world and hope that enough of your readers will notice the difference between the two.
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