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Violence
None
No violence
Language
Barely any
Mild profanity
Sexual Content
A lot
Gay sexual relationships depicted explicitly; the milieu of modeling and gay New York involves frank treatment of sexuality
Substance Use
Some
Drug use in the club and modeling world; AIDS is the central catastrophe
Emotional Intensity
Some
AIDS deaths of friends and lovers; the survivor's paradox of remaining beautiful while others die
What this book is about
Guy, a young Frenchman, becomes a celebrated model in 1970s New York. Decades pass — the AIDS crisis claims friends and lovers around him — yet Guy retains his youth and beauty, which becomes increasingly uncanny. White's late novel is an elegiac portrait of gay life from the disco era through the AIDS crisis, filtered through the fairy-tale unreality of a man who seems exempt from time.
Notes for sensitive readers
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Explicit gay sexual content
AIDS deaths throughout
Survivor guilt
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