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Two Boys Kissing. Two Boys Kissing is a 2013 young adult novel written by American author David Levithan. Inspired by true events, [citation needed] the book follows two 17-year-old boys who set out to break a Guinness World Record by kissing for 32 hours. The book includes a "Greek chorus" of the generation of gay men who died of AIDS.
- United States
- David Levithan
- English
- Young adult fiction
The Los Angeles Times called Two Boys Kissing “Open, frank and ultimately optimistic,” and Entertainment Weekly gave the novel an A-. With Levithan’s trademark sharp-witted, warm-hearted tales of teenage love, Two Boys Kissing will appeal to fans of Levithan’s breakthrough debut, Boy Meets Boy, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2013.
Aug 27, 2013 · It’s impossible to ignore the context of Levithan’s latest novel. The timing is perfect—in the age of Dan Savage’s It Gets Better (2011) and recent Supreme Court rulings on marraige equality, a book meant for young adults features a real-life gay teen couple kissing on the cover, standing in for the book’s two fictional boys, ex-boyfriends hoping to share the world’s longest kiss.
- 2013
- David Levithan
David Levithan’s 2013 young adult novel Two Boys Kissing is narrated from the perspective of the gay men who died during the 1980s HIV/AIDS epidemic. This chorus, resembling that of ancient Greek theater, observes the novel’s present-day characters—several gay teenage boys in neighboring American small towns—as they explore love, relationship, and identity.
“We stand on the shoulders of those who came before us, goes an oft-paraphrased line. David Levithan gives vivid voice to it in his latest YA novel, ‘Two Boys Kissing’. BookPage, August 28, 2013: “Levithan’s powerful, multifaceted novel explores just how far things have come for many gay teens—and how far things still need to go.”
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Two Boys Kissing. David Levithan. Electric Monkey, 2014 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 243 pages. This is from the New York Times best-selling author of Every Day, another thoughtful and original perspective on relationships. It is 2014 Lambda literary award winner and 2014 Stonewall Honor Book, Two Boys Kissing explores how people fall in and out of ...
May 12, 2015 · Based on true events—and narrated by a Greek Chorus of the generation of gay men lost to AIDS— Two Boys Kissing follows Harry and Craig, two seventeen-year-olds who are about to take part in a 32-hour marathon of kissing to set a new Guinness World Record. While the two increasingly dehydrated and sleep-deprived boys are locking lips, they ...
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