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portada Box Hill: A Story of low Self-Esteem
Type
Physical Book
Year
2020
Language
English
Pages
112
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
19.8 x 13.0 x 1.0 cm
Weight
0.14 kg.
ISBN13
9780811230056

Box Hill: A Story of low Self-Esteem

Adam Mars-Jones (Author) · New Directions Publishing Corporation · Paperback

Box Hill: A Story of low Self-Esteem - Adam Mars-Jones

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Synopsis "Box Hill: A Story of low Self-Esteem "

In Box Hill, a vivid coming-of-age novel, a young man suddenly wakes up to his gay self--on his eighteenth birthday, when he receives the best gift ever: love and sex. In the woodsy cruising grounds of Box Hill, chubby Colin literally stumbles over glamorous Ray--ten years older, leather-clad, cool, handsome, a biker, and a top. (Colin, if largely unformed, is nevertheless decidedly a bottom.) Colin narrates his love--conveying how mind-blowing being with Ray is--in comically humble-pie terms. "If there are leaders then there must be followers, and I had followership skills in plenty just waiting to be tapped. To this day I can't see a fat kid in shorts without wanting to rush over and give him what comfort I can. To tell him it won't always be like this." Mars-Jones uses Colin's naivete to give a fresh view of the world and of love. Before long, however, homophobia, class, family strife, and loss rear their ugly heads. Yet in the end, it seems Colin's modest view oddly takes in the widest horizon: he learns that "people can care about anything." A surprise and a pleasure, Box Hill is an intensely moving short novel.
Adam Mars-Jones
  (Author)
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Adam Charles Mars-Jones es un novelista, crítico y ensayista británico, conocido por su escritura incisiva y su estilo que combina ironía, profundidad psicológica y precisión formal. Hijo de una familia con fuerte tradición intelectual, Mars-Jones ha desarrollado una carrera literaria caracterizada por la exploración de la identidad, la memoria y las paradojas de la experiencia humana. Como crítico, ha abordado cine, literatura y cultura contemporánea con una voz clara y argumentativa, y como novelista ha cultivado narrativas que no rehúyen la ambigüedad ni los recovecos éticos de sus personajes.

Su novela Box Hill invita a adentrarse en las complejidades de la relación entre dos hombres a lo largo de años de encuentros y desencuentros, explorando cómo el amor, la culpa y la inseguridad dan forma a la vida íntima y social de los protagonistas. Más allá de ser una historia de relaciones, la obra reflexiona sobre la tensión entre deseo y convenciones, y sobre cómo los pequeños detalles de la vida cotidiana pueden volverse lugares de revelación y duelo. Con su prosa elegante y su mirada certera, Mars-Jones propone una lectura tanto emocional como intelectual, moviéndose con destreza entre lo personal y lo universal.
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