May 20, 2023
Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style by Paul Rudnick
Wealthy Farrell Covington and Jersey Jewish boy Nate Reminger met during their first term at Yale and fell in love, and stayed that way for the next 50 years. Farrell has buckets of style - of course, he has the mega-millions to pay for style - and Nate can't quite believe that Farrell wants to be with him. But Farrell's family refuse to accept that their son is gay and go to great lengths to separate the pair. But their love persists, overcoming everything that comes their way.
The first two thirds of the book were good, very entertaining, but then it started to go off the tracks. One of the characters develops AIDS (it's the 1980s) and then the story starts to get loopy. Really - if you're diagnosed with AIDS or any terminal disease, would you run off and leave your long-term beloved partner for TWO YEARS? And the reason the character goes off is actually pretty stupid - you have to be a mega-rich person to think that it's important. I wouldn't but I'm hetero, so I checked with some of my gay friends and they all agreed they would never do that. Falls kind of flat at the end. Disappointing.
Many thanks to Edelweiss and the publisher for providing an eARC for review.
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