- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Minerva; New edition edition (April 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0749336366
- ISBN-13: 978-0749336363
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,209,944 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A wealthy and renowned author in his middle fifties becomes obsessed with a young American star. One afternoon, a series of seemingly unrelated and insignificant irritants contrives to destroy his cool, Olympian existence and he is forced to confront a long dormant truth about his nature.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Powerful and disturbing.,
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This review is from: Love and Death on Long Island (Paperback)
This is indeed 'Death in Venice' revisited. A late middle-aged widower, a respected author of elite fiction, makes an unprecedented visit to a cinema, goes to see the wrong film and is immediately captivated by one of the film's young American actors. Captivated and, increasingly, obsessed: secretly buying teen movie magazines and reading and re-reading the bland articles, cutting out photographs, kissing them - and more. Eventually, his obsession takes him to America and a meeting with the actor, and a pathetically awful denouement.This is an uncomfortable book. It is written in the first person and brilliantly portrays the pedantic, solitary life of the narrator, the self-aware subterfuge by which he begins his quest for his hero and the final unravelling in which all self-awareness has disappeared. The happy picture portrayed on the cover is a far cry from the reality of this dark book in which the path to humiliating tragedy is all too clear from the first.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Tremendous - very clever & pretty poignant...,
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This review is from: Love and Death on Long Island (Paperback)
Very hard to say anything without giving a lot away. Imagine a first-person Death in Venice, updated to Long Island, and you're along the right lines. A real pleasure to read a profound, believable and really intelligent "gay" novel, which is also deeply moving.
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4.2 out of 5 stars (5 customer reviews) 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Fine novel by an equally fine critic,
By James Palmer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Love and Death on Long Island (Paperback)
Superb novel, parodying everything from Mann to teen B-movies, but with a tender affection for its main character, sardonic and infatuated novelist Giles De'Ath. Quite different from the (extremely good) movie, with much more time spent on Giles' life in England and less on his adventures in the US. Marvellous over-elaborated style, too.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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brilliant,
By tamara thompson - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Love and Death on Long Island (Paperback)
A brilliantly witty and beautifully written short novel. Comparable to the prose stylings of a personal favorite, Graham Greene, his prose is eloquent and romantic. Adair proves himself as a wordsmith of the highest order, possessing an encyclopedic knowledge of the english language. I only wonder why a writer of his caliber lacks the publicity and popularity of his more noted literary confreres.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Never mind the width, feel the quality,
By Bevan Lee - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Love and Death on Long Island (Paperback)
What a small gem! Only 137 pages, but a rich and full journey into the mind of a closeted academic as he works his way through an infatuation with vacuous teen idol Ronny Bostock. Gilbert De'Ath's encounters with the modern world in the form of multiplex cinemas, teenage fanzines, video recorders, pulp cinema and Pakistani newsagents is both hilarious and touching. A vast improvement on the somewhat lacklustre screen treatment.
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