Ripe: Letters -

Alan Semrow

Independente

2018

154 páginas

5h 8m

ISBN-10: 1723761680

Funny, sexy, evocative, and brutally honest, Ripe is Alan Semrow’s ode to relationships with men. In this epistolary book, Semrow writes to the men who have impacted his outlook, reminded him of basic life lessons, surprised him in more ways than one, and left him reeling for days. Writing to one-night-flings, men he has never met, and men he’ll never stop running into, Semrow touches on some of the most constant human themes—love, lust, desire, and the yearning for connection. All the while, the book details a man’s journey navigating and blooming by way of the modern gay scene. Readers will find familiarity and hard truths in Semrow’s statements about the intricacy and explosiveness of the intimate moments we share.

Resenhas (1)

5 (Perfeito)

Letters about an gay´s man life and maybe a little bit about life in general

I really enjoyed reading this book, I haven't read a book in english in a long time and I intend this to be the first of many to come this year. But I never thought I would go through such an experience. From my rating it is clear that I liked to read but I will be more specific with the reasons for that, the texts are quite simple in a way, but the writing brings a delicacy and a level of exposure, which I was shocked. Being an autobiography in letters focused on the author's relationships, it can be interpreted as a work that is based on satisfying the author's own ego, but not. I interpret these letters as small pieces of the author's life where relationships are addressed, with the right to amusement, exposure, courage, sex and a lot of vulnerability, with regard to the experience of a gay man. Many will identify with the feelings that these letters convey and not only for sexuality, themes such as fleeting relationships, being single, falling in love, loneliness, expectations, that is, much of what refers to ties with other people today. When something so simple comes to the reader in a way, through the reality of a gay man, representing contemporary relationships in as many ways as this book (perhaps unintentionally) does, it has to be read.