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| Title | : | Cody: Clicking Beat on the Brink of Nada |
| Author | : | Keith Hale |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | 7th |
| Pages | : | Pages: 262 pages |
| Published | : | May 22nd 2014 by Watersgreen House (first published January 1st 1983) |
| Categories | : | LGBT. Young Adult. Gay. Fiction. Romance. M M Romance. Gay Fiction |
Keith Hale
Paperback | Pages: 262 pages Rating: 3.92 | 326 Users | 43 Reviews
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By turns funny, romantic, erotic, and sad, this evocative novel brilliantly recreates the landscape of late adolescence, when friendships seem eternal and loves reincarnate. Set in Arkansas but first published in Amsterdam under the title Clicking Beat on the Brink of Nada, Cody quickly won praise from reviewers and readers across Europe and North America and caught the attention of William S. Burroughs and other writers who befriended the young author (Hale began writing the novel when he was sixteen). The first edition of the book was immediately banned in the United Kingdom during Margaret Thatcher's Operation Tiger. Today, Clicking Beat remains current and continues to be unique in both coming of age literature and the gay literary canon.
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| Original Title: | Clicking Beat on the Brink of Nada |
| ISBN: | 069222453X (ISBN13: 9780692224533) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Steven Trottingham "Trotsky" Taylor, Washington Damon Cody |
| Setting: | Little Rock, Arkansas(United States) Arkansas(United States) |
Rating Of Books Cody: Clicking Beat on the Brink of Nada
Ratings: 3.92 From 326 Users | 43 ReviewsCrit Of Books Cody: Clicking Beat on the Brink of Nada
Notes for myself ( No time to write a proper review.Plus I owe the book another read through to be fair )-Could relate to the character on a spiritual, moral and intellectual level. Once again, the sexual elements of the story ( like other books ) just didn't click for me.I'm not sure why.-Finished with the sense that the MC wasn't as immersed in his life ( or at least didn't reveal enough of it, of those matters I care for. )( I wish the finale could have been more drawn out, I felt like I wasHeartbreaking gay coming-of-age story about teens in Little Rock, Arkansas in the late Seventies. This is an exquisite, tender, realistic, and honest novel that beautifully captures adolescence. The book was first published in the Netherlands, where Hale was then living, in 1983, and it was banned in the U.K. for its gay subject matter until the courts overturned the ban. The book seems decorous by todays standards.
My favorite book. Period. I love the characters. The story tears my heart out, but in a good way. I've read it over and over and over and was so happy to see a revised edition come out. It's even better than ever now. Anyone who read Perks of Being a Wallflower and liked it should read this book.
A lot more literary than what I was looking for. Still, a good read. I'm not certain when it's set, I'm leaning toward saying it was the mid eighties at the latest, except I remember the eighties as a lot more frivolous than this narrator saw them. The narrator...interesting character...reminded me of a lot of intellectually minded guys I met in college, way more erudite and philosophical than most high school boys, and it was a little jarringHerman Hesse and socialism, typewriters and record
This is the only book that I've read in a single day. I could not put this book down. I read this book back in the late 80s early 90s. Probably read it about 5 times in the first couple years of having it. Been more than 15 years since I last read Cody but I can still resight the I remember friends poem in the back of the book. Cody is an amazing love story that's a different kind of love story.
Cody, or as its author wanted to title it, and as he did in the reprint edition, Clicking Beat on the Brink of Nada, is at the same time one of the most easy and most difficult novel I have read. Easy because you fall in love for all the characters, Trotsky, Cody, Mark, Freddy, Christian, Flipping, Sarah, all of them so real and simple that they can be your high school mate, your neighbour, your brother; easy because, despite being written in an almost immaculate style (if not perfect at all),
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