Pride Jonathan Hill 9781507652022 Books
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Pride Jonathan Hill 9781507652022 Books
What do you remember most from your first Pride? Are you still making plans for your first Pride? Or you think it is all just a bunch of crap wrapped up in the glittering human rights propaganda?To teenage boy Liam his first Gay Pride march is everything. Not even traveling by himself to another town and lying to his parents can prevent him to attend it. Because Liam reached the point when he accepted himself for who he was and now he seeks the acceptance of others too.
But is he ready to accept the dire consequences of his actions and coming out to another teenage boy, a stranger to him? Can he embrace the pain and guilt of a caterpillar spreading its rainbow-colored wings as a new butterfly?
Tender is the way and splashed with the right dose of humor with which Jonathan Hill makes us to befriend and love the characters in his novella Pride. It’s a brutally honest and beautifully realistic story which begs for your attention. In other words, a must-read!
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Pride Jonathan Hill 9781507652022 Books Reviews
Jonathan Hill is one of a select group of authors who entices me from my comfort zone of mostly genre fiction with carefully crafted writing and rich characterisation. Whether it be a strange old lady, boys at a boarding school or this latest tale - he hasn't failed to entrance and entertain. After his debut full length novel last year I had high expectations from this latest release and I wasn't disappointed. I don't think it's as stand out as that novel, but it it is still a fine read.
The interesting aspect of the story for me is that it means different things depending on the reader. For me the experiences in the book aren't ones I have encountered, while for others there will be familiar elements that they can compare with their own experience.
The story follows two timelines, the first is Liam as a youth and him attempting to come to terms with his sexuality. Now this can be an emotive subject and in some books come across as quite confrontational or preachy. This isn't the case with Pride, so doesn't act as a barrier to understanding what this man is experiencing. The other perspective is from him as an older man with more wisdom under his belt and provides contrast to his younger self.
As with all of the author's works the writing is exemplary. There is a gentle humour evident as well and together they make this an easy read even while tackling serious topics. I'd recommend this even if it doesn't seem like your type of read as it is quite likely to surprise you.
Pride
Pride is about a young man trying to find his identity. It’s about his feelings of alienation from the world around him. It is the quest to find himself. This story tells us about Liam’s trip to a Gay Pride March, and the beginning of his journey into adulthood. It tells us of his alienation from his parents, and his subsequent departure from the family home.
I’m sure that many gay men and women will identify with the emotions dealt with within this brilliantly written story, but I feel that many others will also identify with this tale. I certainly did.
There are many diverse reasons why people can feel like outcasts within society, and these are further exacerbated by the hormonal and emotional upheaval of the teenage years. I think this story relates to a much larger audience than just the gay community. It reminds me of an old punk song ‘Did He Jump’ by the band Zounds.
Who was that on the window ledge?
Did he jump or was he pushed?
He left a note which no one read,
In desperate hands the note just said,
“Never turned my back on society,
Society turned its back on me.
Never tried once to drop out,
I just couldn’t get in from the very start!”
... But enough about the plot. This story is so much more than a clever plot. It is a wonderfully crafted piece of prose, written by a true wordsmith. The story is filled with wry humour and self depreciation. It contains many dark shadows, but also many brilliant rainbows. It was a sheer pleasure to read each and every sentence, and it left me somewhat sad when the story finally ended. It left me wanting more. Not that the story needed more. The ending was a natural conclusion, as was the whole progression of the tale, but it still left me with an inner emptiness upon completing the book.
I feel that Jonathan Hill’s writing came of age with his recent novel F.A.G, and this story, although shorter, is no less brilliant.
Great reading
A long short story, by a young author of great talent, “Pride” follows the coming out experience of Liam, a fifteen-year-old, during the John Major years in England in the 1990s. I suspect this is a very personal story for Hill, for it fairly shimmers with the rawness of first-hand experience.
This is a beautifully written and told tale. It begins with the tentativeness of an emerging adolescent gay awareness, and carries the reader forward by carefully calibrated leaps, the voice alternating deftly between the third person and a first-person narrator. It is a tale about the excitement of belonging, the fear of rejection, the yearning for companionship. It is about the guilt imposed on us from within and without that drives us away from those who hurt us and toward those who make us whole.
It is also a tale of forgiveness, offering a tender culmination that moved me to tears.
Even the easiest coming out story is fraught with anxiety and uncertainty. Possibly the most crucial moment in the lifelong coming out process is the reaction of one’s parents. Hill has created an intimate story that is profoundly resonant. It is a marvelous little work of art, and a powerful reminder of how far we have yet to go.
What do you remember most from your first Pride? Are you still making plans for your first Pride? Or you think it is all just a bunch of crap wrapped up in the glittering human rights propaganda?
To teenage boy Liam his first Gay Pride march is everything. Not even traveling by himself to another town and lying to his parents can prevent him to attend it. Because Liam reached the point when he accepted himself for who he was and now he seeks the acceptance of others too.
But is he ready to accept the dire consequences of his actions and coming out to another teenage boy, a stranger to him? Can he embrace the pain and guilt of a caterpillar spreading its rainbow-colored wings as a new butterfly?
Tender is the way and splashed with the right dose of humor with which Jonathan Hill makes us to befriend and love the characters in his novella Pride. It’s a brutally honest and beautifully realistic story which begs for your attention. In other words, a must-read!
Bernard Jan
bernardjandotcom
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