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41 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Anthony McDonald- Adam, 4 Jan 2004
If I were to tell you the outline of this book, you would think- nah! that would be terrible! So I will because you would be so wrong! Adam is a 16-year-old bopy living in france. He is the perfect song- he practices his cello, he is bilingual. However, Adam is having gay sexual relations with a farm hand he just happened to meet one day and the adventure turns into a great confusing love story which will set any mind boggling.
Sound silly really. But it isn't. It is fabulous. McDonald has a supurb way of presenting erotic ideas in this book, and it is not only romantic and passionate, it is frustrating, amusing and a brilliently entertaining read.
This is one of those books you tell yourself you'll just read one more chapter but then bargin with yourself just to read one more! i found myself trying to put it down so i could get a good night sleep before a busy start, and ending up reading 10 chapters! Foolish writer for being good!
But seriously, it is good, it is entertaining, and I cannot deny that the eroticness of the book is rather rough and readdy but is brilliently put and very good to read.
This book will not appeal to most straight males, and it isn't a book for the faint hearted. I think the best readers for this book are for people between the age of 16 and 25, mainly females and gay men or more open minded men. Don't let your granney read it nor your little sister!
Absolutly Fantastic-One of my favorites EVER!
A Proud 10/10!
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Above par coming-of-age tale, 14 Jan 2004
By A Customer
This is one of the best coming of age stories I've ever read. McDonald takes a familiar and overused theme and works many different angles into it to make it stand out. Set in rural France, it adds atmosphere to the story, and the main character, Adam, is for once a fairly complex person; likable but by no means perfect; intelligent, but capable of making serious and potentially dangerous mistakes. Considering the book may have been aimed primarily aimed at young people, there is quite a substantial number of sex scenes, some quite graphic. However, McDonald handles it very well, and at no time is the story in danger of degenerating into smuttiness. In fact, the sex scenes are an integral part of the plot. The book is at odds with so many 'erotic' stories out there, it manages to pull off so much more without even trying to be erotic. If only more gay-themed stories could do the same!
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An evocative French setting, 6 May 2006
It is good news that this fine novel is being reissued by a new publisher after the sad demise of GMP. When I finished 'Adam' the first time I immediately started to read it again and since then I have dipped into it several times. The story is intense, moving and finally hair-raising; Adam, the impeccably middle class, cello playing, only son of parents working in France for a year, is swept up into an affair with a total opposite, a wild, sprite-like but virile peasant young man from a farm deep in the countryside nearby. The sights, sounds, smells of the French countryside in different seasons make an evocative setting for the interweaving strands of turbulent adolescent emotions and serious music making. There is sex for Adam with visiting school friends from England and with his wild Frenchman, Sylvain, the writing of it is intimate and sensitive.
I believe a sequel to 'Adam' is on its way and that too is good news. Both 'Adam' and Mcdonald's previous novel,'Orange Bitter, Orange Sweet', which has a similarly evocative setting in Seville in Spain, show that Mcdonald is a writer to follow.
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