Growing up queer in a communist state, queens Patricia and Lucretia spent the 70s and 80s underground, finding glamour in the squalor, strutting their stuff in parks and public toilets, seducing hard Soviet soldiers, preying on drunks, and seeing their friends die of AIDS.Today they're about to hit Lovetown, a homo-haven, populated by a younger generation of emancipated gays, who are out and proud in their post-communist paradise: suntanned, sculpted and vigorously spending the pink euro.This is the story of the clash between old and new gays - the clapped out queens and the flashy fags - as they meet in a place where anything goes, butsome things have alsobeen lost.
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MICHAL WITKOWSKI was born in 1975 and is the author of a book of short stories, Copyright (2001). This is his first novel.He lives in Warsaw.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Too much repetition,
By Kiwifunlad (London, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Lovetown (Paperback)
This book has been praised in several British newspapers and received alot of acclaim elsewhere too but it is not an overly enjoyable read due to its constant repetition of barely discernable incidents. It's over use of the female pronoun to describe the gay men who are all given women's names in the story also became tedious.
Set in Poland the book changes back and forth between modern 21st Century Poland with its increasingly open gay scene and the underworld gay scene of the 1970's and 80's. Its underlying fascination for me was the regret the aging gay men had for the old gay scene under the Communist regime where the "grunts" (supposedly straight men) and Russian soldiers were easy game. The reminiscences in this book were collected by the author who interviewed the older gay men who lived during the 1970's and 80's and to me these characters, as one previous reviewer has already stated, all tended to merge together into one voice.
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