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Title: The Boys on the Rock (Stonewall Inn Editions) by John Fox ISBN: 0-312-10433-2 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (27 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A wonderful, smooth, yet fairly quick read!
Comment: This is a short, easy read (only about 146 pages). However, it is intelligently written, realistic, funny, touching, sexy, evocative and just plain fabulous!

Yes, this is just a coming out and self-discovery story, but a coming out and self-discovery story that should set the standard for all gay youth stories.
The story is set in America (The Bronx, specifically), in 1968, with Vietnam, the Bobby Kennedy assassination and a whole wealth of other historical events as a background, it deals with Billy Connors' first love and his own self-discovery and sexual feeling's, and these are ultra realistic sexual feelings!

This is an extremely literary book, again with innovative and wonderful language and character's and thought's. '. It captures a huge array of gay teen male emotions and desires with so much accuracy, that empathy is established with no conscious thought.

'The Boys on the Rock', was first published in 1985 but recently re-published for a new generation of young kids to enjoy!

I belive, this is a superb, evocative, intelligent and wonderful book, this is required reading!

Rating: 4
Summary: An adolescent tells a very mature, humorous yet sad story
Comment: Billy is a gay Holden Caulfield for our age, in his narration style as well as personality. Though I am a straight woman, I read this book during a decision-making time of my life, and Billy's struggle with figuring out, exploring, and enjoying his own homosexuality turn out to be surprisingly applicable and encouraging to anyone coming to terms with a novel facet of their own character. The book is a good, fast read, and tells a believable story, peopled with characters one can identify with easily--or recognize!

Rating: 4
Summary: A Sweet, Short, Sixties Coming-of-Age Story
Comment: How sad to hear this author passed away; I believe this is his only book in print. If so, what a nice legacy to leave for us. While an enjoyable and touching read for all, I suspect this book will have greatest impact on those wrestling with, or in the process of, coming out. Fox captures the frustration and insanity of dealing with such a process while still in high school. In the 1960s, no less, which, while certainly more tolerant than previous decades, still had a ways to go on gay awareness & acceptance. (By the way, we still have a ways to go even now, in this post-millenium decade). Framing the book around RFK's asassination heightens the drama. Cleverly, it also draws in those who are old enough to recall that dark day, because that is a time we don't forget easily. I don't want to comment further on plot, as this is a short book, and I don't want to give anything else away; suffice to say this is an enjoyable, well-written book, and if you like coming of age, coming out stories, this is a great one to choose.