Boy Meets Boy is a novel American Youth, written in 2003 and not yet translated into French. First novel by David Levithan, the author has since gained notoriety with One night in New York (Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist) co-wrote with Rachel Cohn and filmed in 2008.
Boy meets boy recounts the trials and tribulations in love with Paul, a gay high school boy, although in his pomp and his city. Her daily life is divided between his two best friends, Joni, childhood friend, headstrong, and Tony, a quiet boy suffocated by parents too religious. Paul is happy, balanced. And then he meets Noah. The boy has just moved. Charming, artist and with a sensitivity all on edge, still raw after a disappointment in love.
Paul falls in love. Following a misunderstanding, a merdouillage by too much kindness, all in a spin by Paul and Noah loses. Modeled on the scenario tested "meeting, separating, regaining" Levithan sign a simple story and simply beautiful.
Homosexual relations are described without ostentation, with humor and above all tolerance. But even in this fictional world, everyone has no chance of Paul. Tony and his friend, his sexual preferences are considered for his parents as a disease, an aberration that must be eradicated failing to burn in hell. Tony is probably the most emotional character in this novel.
style Levithan, sentences short and punchy, attractive in its freshness and purity. The pictorial vocabulary is never vulgar. He manages to convey the strength of youth: sometimes, the violence of his words peremptory used as a shield or as a lethal weapon, sometimes, the poetry of his vision and the tumult of feelings that a breath of wind wakes.
Levithan does not describe the turmoil of a young heart in love, he manages to evoke in the reader. If my high school years are very distant from reading the novel itself, I remembered. A tidal wave that devastates everything in the blink of an eye, and the next moment everything is calm, frozen in a serenity in harmony with the world.
The dynamic narrative with short chapters leads the reader into his fictional reality embellished. Throughout the pages, one begins to hope that a city such as the book is perfect even in its imperfections, can really exist. Levithan known to use pictures in order to divert. His characters are very colorful endearing. Quickly
stereotypes humanized, take the thickness as Infinite Darlene, drag queen and quarterback who is not afraid to break a nail on the football field. His ego is also oversize and invasive soft cocoon for all his friends. Levithan's characters have the ability to break down barriers, prejudices, go to the essentials to open at the other, give.
A breath of fresh air to feel his heart banging hard, his blood pounding in his veins and invaded without shame gene by love. And, against all odds, a hymn to tolerance.
The author's website: http://www.davidlevithan.com
Copyright: Marianne Ciaudo 
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