Not a conventional family — this is a John Irving novel, after all. “There’s a lot of making fun of sex in the book,” Irving counters. “I think over the years I’ve demonstrated that sexual politics are my politics … the politics of sexual identity, the politics of sexual differences, the politics of sexual intolerance that never seems to go away.”It’s something he’s proud of. And “making Adam straight in a queer world was a way of isolating him, of emphasizing his outsiderness,” says Irving. You might be afraid of it, the way Adam remembers, at the end of the book, being afraid as a child of the dark.

Source: thestar October 14, 2022 09:01 UTC