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冯唐  · 公众号  · 美文  · 2019-04-16 04:27
Give Me a Girl at Age EighteenFeng Tang’s once-scandalous debut has aged as badly as its adolescent narratorBy Carlos Ottery Writing well about sex has always been a near-impossible task. It is why there are awards for bad sex writing, but not good.Feng Tang’s Give Me a Girl at Age Eighteen is very much about sex, although there’s not much of it (bar one passing scene out of 266 hormonal pages) and what exists is more likely to make you cringe than smile in scandalous assent.Instead of bona fide screwing, we get page after page of dreaming, pining, discussing, and philosophizing about sex; detailed wet dreams, endless erections, constant masturbation, and relentless cock talk. The narrator happens to be a teenage boy—all desperate thoughts and little action—in the manner of Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint, published back in 1969, when such things still had the cap ………………………………

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