Animate or inanimate, it makes no odds: gloves, garlic, the Bible.” There are also exams to consider, and Oliver’s guilt over taking part in the bullying of a fat girl in his class. First off, there’s the neighborhood “pansexual,” a man who, according to Oliver, is “attracted to everything. On the eve of his 15th birthday, he has a lot to think about. Oliver, the well-loved only child of Jill and Lloyd Tate, is both hero and narrator.
The latest bulletin arrives from a 25-year-old Welsh writer, Joe Dunthorne, whose precocious talents and cheerful fondness for the teenage male are showcased in “Submarine,” his first novel. Rowling explored the frightening black magic of a changing body. Salinger described the panicked resistance to entering the adult world of “phonies and, more recently, J. Philip Roth examined the exhausting mental not to mention physical work of existing in a perpetual state of heat J.
The mind of a teenage boy is not an easy place to inhabit.
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