Oh, goodness me, I loved this little book. Seeing this, their parents engineer a shared holiday to Italy, hoping that an enforced togetherness will reignite the genuine bond they have lost. Danny is both jealous of and infuriated by Elijah. Elijah feels disapproved of by Danny and stubbornly refuses to even try to live up to someone else's standards. He's so intent on where he's going, he often forgets where he actually is. Twenty-three year old Danny is uptight, career-minded, brand-conscious. He beams upon people with a kind of beatific grace and people like him for it.
He's gentle, kind, dreamy and introspective. Sixteen year old Elijah is the New Age, crusty type. They have grown into very different young men. Way back in the mists of time, when Danny was small and Elijah was tiny, they were inseparable. Publisher: Harper Collins Children's BooksĮlijah and Danny Silver don't get on. The book would not be seen as groundbreaking in the same way if it were published now because we have, at last, moved on.Summary: Present tense, stream of consciousness, over-styled navel-gazing at its best, this is the kind of intimate yet cool book that will have its teen target audience eating right out of its hand. “It was probably a radical notion in literature back then that teenagers could be gay, and happy, and in love, and that this alone would drive the plot forward. “I guess that the book was seen as pretty daring at the time,” Levithan, 42, says from his home in Hoboken, New Jersey. When his 2003 debut, Boy Meets Boy, became a runaway bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic, it also courted – as runaway bestsellers often do – an attendant controversy, not merely because his lead characters were gay, but because they weren’t persecuted or in peril, but simply in love. In the dozen years that US author David Levithan has been writing young adult (YA) novels that focus either on or around LGBT issues, teen-marketed books with gay narratives have come out of the closet, and into the mainstream.
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