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It wasn't what I expected, but I thought McKenna's "novelization" of Fanny and Stella and his camp prose were effective means to interpret his subject matter. It would have been better if not so cliche-ridden and a tic of using three synonyms where one word would have sufficed irritated, but it was an entertaining and even thought-provoking read.
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I found the subject matter of Fanny and Stella interesting, as it's not a world I knew much about, apart from the infamous Oscar Wilde case, so was looking forward to reading Fanny and Stella. I wasn't disappointed either, in terms of learning a lot more about the London gay scene in Victorian times. I was surprised by how brazen the men were, given that until recently sodomy had been a hanging offence, and was still effectively a life sentence if successfully convicted, given that ten years of
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The book has a split personality. Some chapters are well researched and presented with a remarkable flamboyance--particularly those which dramatise the seamy underside of Victorian society. On the other side are the sections which are little more than fictionalised attempts to present the characters of Fanny and (especially) Stella.
It's fun but I was expecting something more acutely perceptive. ...more
It's fun but I was expecting something more acutely perceptive. ...more
