Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club
Registered by Dog-Book-Lover of Riverside, California USA on 6/11/2018
This book is in a Controlled Release!
This book is in a Controlled Release!
1 journaler for this copy...
This book was recommended to me as an example of Mexican stories. Really? So it takes place in and around 20th century (maybe a touch of the 21st) cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, and the characters are mostly Mexican or have Mexican ancestry. The connection to the title club/bar? Limited at best, absent in some stories.
All of this doesn't stop the book from simply being soft porn for mostly angst-ridden gay men, written mostly in self-directed dialogue. Unless you are interested in this sort of thing, don't buy it. Why it won the Pen/Faulkner award is less a statement on the quality of stories and more on the stated mission of Pen/Faulkner to fight against inequality and closed-mindedness, and to encourage free expression by modern authors. Kudos to them, but I found the book unenlightening.
For me, it was a waste of my time and money. The bookseller should have known my tastes better.
All of this doesn't stop the book from simply being soft porn for mostly angst-ridden gay men, written mostly in self-directed dialogue. Unless you are interested in this sort of thing, don't buy it. Why it won the Pen/Faulkner award is less a statement on the quality of stories and more on the stated mission of Pen/Faulkner to fight against inequality and closed-mindedness, and to encourage free expression by modern authors. Kudos to them, but I found the book unenlightening.
For me, it was a waste of my time and money. The bookseller should have known my tastes better.
Donated to SPC Jesus S. Duran Eastside Library (branch of Riverside City Library).
