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Lovetown

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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.