Recommended by 3 notable people, including Janet Mock and Anya Taylor-Joy
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Sharp, intimate prose and a confined Paris setting produce a small, intense novel that tracks a young man's struggle between desire and social expectation. Its useful part is the sustained, inward pressure: long passages of reflection that make moral hesitation feel palpable and the prose often luminous. The main limitation is narrow scope—the plot is compact and frequently inward, so secondary figures stay sketchy and the mood can feel claustrophobic; readers seeking momentum or wider context may find it slow.
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Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin's nowclassic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a moving, highly controversial story of death and passion that reveals the unspoken ...
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Lesbian, LGBTQ, and Fiction.
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Consider Batwoman by Greg Rucka. Recommended by 1 sources.
“Batwoman by Greg Rucka reads like a compact, dark superhero comic that pitches a Gothic, Alice-in-Wonderland-tinged villain against a stoic heroine. Visual set pieces and tense confrontations are the main pleasure: quick, atmospheric scenes that sell mood and stakes. The useful part is how the conflict clarifies Batwoman's resolve and moral code in a single arc. The limiting part is occasional reliance on tropey 'madwoman' imagery and surreal set dressing that some readers will find repetitive or emotionally blunt rather than subtle.”
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