This is a recounting of one man's recollection of a teenage romance and how the impact of that romance echoed throughout the ensuing years for both individuals. There are none of the stale old tropes so often used by women who are writing gay male love stories for other women. This is literary fiction and not genre M4M gay romance. Like Edward Louis's wonderful The End of Eddy, This story seems to walk a blurry line between novel and memoir. It is a story beautifully and realistically written by Philippe Besson and warmly translated from French to English by Molly Ringwald. If the novel, Lie With Me, is not essential reading for gay men, it is as close as one can get.
Memoir or fiction, either way it's enthralling. Without ever acknowledging they know each other in the halls, they steal time to meet in secret, carrying on a passionate, world-altering affair.ĭazzlingly rendered in English by Ringwald in her first-ever translation, Besson’s powerfully moving coming-of-age story captures the eroticism and tenderness of first love - and the heartbreaking passage of time. What follows is a look back at the relationship he’s never forgotten, a hidden affair with a gorgeous boy named Thomas during their last year of high school. Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love.
The bike smells like gasoline and makes a lot of noise, and sometimes I’m frightened when the wheels slip on the gravel on the dirt road, but the only thing that matters is that I’m holding on to him, that I’m holding on to him outside. We drive at high speed along back roads, through woods, vineyards, and oat fields.
The award-winning, best-selling French novel by Philippe Besson - “the French Brokeback Mountain ” ( Elle ) - about an affair between two teenage boys in 1984 France, translated with subtle beauty and haunting lyricism by the iconic and internationally acclaimed actress/writer Molly Ringwald. “Stunning and heart-gripping.” (André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name ) TheSkimm ’s LGBTQ+ books to celebrate Pride The Wall Street Journal ’s 10 Books You’ll Want to Read this Spring O, The Oprah Magazine ’s Best LGBTQ Books That'll Change the Literary Landscape in 2019 A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
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