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"Susan Sontag once said to me that 'There is a very brief window of about 30 years where human beings were free to do what they wanted sexually - between the invention of birth control pills and antibiotics and the advent of AIDS'. It is bookended by "the two big events of the era", the 1969 Stonewall rebellion, which marked the beginning of gay liberation, and the advent of AIDS in the 80s, says White. He was conscious too, of wanting to encapsulate a social history of both forms of sexuality over 30 years in the novel, which opens in the 60s when the two young men arrive separately at New York to work at a magazine. "But I was inspired by my favourite writer Henry Green, Evelyn Waugh a little bit, and Nancy Mitford." "In this book I tried to have a bit more clever dialogue," White says. It is also a novel sparkling with bright social chatter and luminous, clever prose, and is already being hailed as one of White's finest, no slight praise given that he has won numerous prestigious awards for 11 previously acclaimed novels, three memoirs and nine non-fiction works, including biographies of Genet, Proust and Rimbaud. Jack Holmes and his Friend is a novel lavishly laced with detailed, often comic descriptions of sex, both straight and gay, as it tells of a lifelong friendship between Jack Holmes, a gay man with a prodigious physical endowment, and Will Wright.
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"I felt if I placed heterosexuality and homosexuality in a reciprocal relationship with two intelligent people who are quite introspective, they might reveal something about sexuality as a general thing," he says.
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Turn it over and you can better understand how it's sewn. "I mean, gays are only three per cent of the population."įor White, homosexuality is like the obverse side of a tapestry. "And yet obviously human experience is much broader than that," he says.