God in Flight, The

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Summary: the reader in flight
Review: This really is an awful book - the worst sort of airless female fantasy about homosexual men. It's quite elegantly written, but deeply pornographic, not in the number and fervour of its sexual descriptions, but in its lack of anything else: this is all the author wants to write about. The scene is the sheerest fantasy: a version of 19th-century Yale in which no student has any interest whatever in the opposite sex.
The author's role model seems to have been Mary Renault, whose wonderful book The Charioteer receives an oblique kind of tribute in the final pages. Read The Charioteer instead, or again.