Rainbow Boys
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Beschreibung
Navigating through the intolerant world of the early aughts and their own insecurities, three teenage boys find each other and the confidence to come out of the closet in this seminal queer coming-of-age novel.
Jason Carillo is a jock with a steady girlfriend. He’s on track to play ball, marry his high school sweetheart, and get as far away from his abusive dad as possible—but that’s if he can get into college with his shaky math grades…and if he can stop dreaming about having sex with guys.
Kyle Meeks is definitely gay, but he’s not planning on telling anyone, least of all his parents. All he wants is to keep his head down and get through high school without incident—until Jason asks him for help in math and all of a sudden, Kyle is spending long hours with a boy he’s always found cute and it’s getting harder and harder to keep his feelings under wraps.
Nelson Glassman is out and loud about it, but being proud of who you are doesn’t mean things don’t get lonely. He’s got a target on his back for the school bullies to kick, and while his mom supports him, she doesn’t entirely understand him. To make things worse, he and his best friend—and longtime crush—Kyle have been spending more and more time apart, and he doesn’t know how to deal.
Messy, honest, and raw, Rainbow Boys follows these three boys as they come of age and come out of the closet in the early aughts in one of the most revolutionary young adult novels in the last quarter century.
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Huh, the book ended a bit abruptly since I expected it to be 272 pages long. Rainbow Boys is about three boys in their senior year of high school. Jason - the jock, Kyle - the shy swimmer, Nelson - out and proud. The book is told from perspective of all the three boys, giving us insight to how they're all feeling and what they're going through. I really liked the book even though I had some problems with it. Some people mentioned it in their reviews already but Rainbow Boys feels somewhat dated (mainly the stuff about "on-line things") and sometimes it felt like a PSA. This is what made some of Nelson's storyline hard to believe, because it felt forced so the author could write about the issues he wanted to present. If it would have been worked into the story better I could've appreciated it more but this way it felt out of place. But over all Rainbow Boys is a good book about, love, friendship, family, discovering who you are and coming out. However I'm not sure if I'm going to read the sequels, the ending felt like closure even if it was open-ended.
Beschreibung
Navigating through the intolerant world of the early aughts and their own insecurities, three teenage boys find each other and the confidence to come out of the closet in this seminal queer coming-of-age novel.
Jason Carillo is a jock with a steady girlfriend. He’s on track to play ball, marry his high school sweetheart, and get as far away from his abusive dad as possible—but that’s if he can get into college with his shaky math grades…and if he can stop dreaming about having sex with guys.
Kyle Meeks is definitely gay, but he’s not planning on telling anyone, least of all his parents. All he wants is to keep his head down and get through high school without incident—until Jason asks him for help in math and all of a sudden, Kyle is spending long hours with a boy he’s always found cute and it’s getting harder and harder to keep his feelings under wraps.
Nelson Glassman is out and loud about it, but being proud of who you are doesn’t mean things don’t get lonely. He’s got a target on his back for the school bullies to kick, and while his mom supports him, she doesn’t entirely understand him. To make things worse, he and his best friend—and longtime crush—Kyle have been spending more and more time apart, and he doesn’t know how to deal.
Messy, honest, and raw, Rainbow Boys follows these three boys as they come of age and come out of the closet in the early aughts in one of the most revolutionary young adult novels in the last quarter century.
Buchinformationen
Beiträge
Huh, the book ended a bit abruptly since I expected it to be 272 pages long. Rainbow Boys is about three boys in their senior year of high school. Jason - the jock, Kyle - the shy swimmer, Nelson - out and proud. The book is told from perspective of all the three boys, giving us insight to how they're all feeling and what they're going through. I really liked the book even though I had some problems with it. Some people mentioned it in their reviews already but Rainbow Boys feels somewhat dated (mainly the stuff about "on-line things") and sometimes it felt like a PSA. This is what made some of Nelson's storyline hard to believe, because it felt forced so the author could write about the issues he wanted to present. If it would have been worked into the story better I could've appreciated it more but this way it felt out of place. But over all Rainbow Boys is a good book about, love, friendship, family, discovering who you are and coming out. However I'm not sure if I'm going to read the sequels, the ending felt like closure even if it was open-ended.