Set in the 1960s in an Oxford college when being gay was still an offence punishable by imprisonment, Sandel tells the story of a love affair between an undergraduate (David Rogers), and a cathedral choir boy (Antony Sandel). Sensual, profound, often funny and never sentimental, Stewart provides a definitive analysis of same-sex love in the context of a relationship that reveals love as the one agent of the human condition that can set us free.
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Set in the 1960s in an Oxford college when being gay was still an offence punishable by imprisonment, Sandel tells the story of a love affair between an undergraduate (David Rogers), and a cathedral choir boy (Antony Sandel). Sensual, profound, often funny and never sentimental, Stewart provides a definitive analysis of same-sex love in the context of a relationship that reveals love as the one agent of the human condition that can set us free.
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I cannot recommend this book. The plot has less structure or clarity than a corner full of cobwebs. Both the conversations and the narration of the story are unclear, as if seen at several removes from the action. It is difficult to tell just what is going on in the minds of the characters, what they feel, what they perceive, and what they are doing or will do. The plots are not realistic. Both the major characters---Sandel, 13 and 14, and David, 19 and 20, are musical geniuses who live in detached worlds of indefinite, largely purposeless fantasy that somehow commingle. Sandel does what he pleases, increasingly, and David acquiesces. Neither one matures. There is no ultimate resolution of the issues. Everything just continues on indefinitely. Even the importance of love as a liberating agent is ill-defined. The moral of the story becomes that having loving, caring parents is essential for having age-mature, happy, and fulfilled children at any age.
