Celia Room edition by Kevin Booth Literature Fiction eBooks
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“Stunning debut If you like Kerouac or Isherwood you will love Celia’s Room.”
Kevin Booth paints an expressionist portrait of the Barcelona night in a year of sex, drugs and deception. Told through their own eyes, sensitive Joaquim—whose passion for painting will propel him into the artist’s life—and cynical Eduardo—addicted to a nightlife that thwarts his ambition to write—unveil a sexual, dreamlike city, embodied by the enigmatic Celia. Shadowy chapters in Spanish history are revealed in this nocturnal world by an extravagant cast of gay, lesbian and heterogeneous characters.
Despite their violently contrasting natures, Joaquim and Eduardo both fall under Celia’s aura. The games they are learning to play will draw all three into conflict—against the backdrop of a city that is also rehearsing a new identity—leading them inexorably towards the truth of Celia’s Room.
“Nothing is quite as it seems. This book rejoices in ambiguity and ambivalence, successfully capturing the zeitgeist of Barcelona.”
"I loved the power of your rich sensual imagery – visceral and authentic. And the literary, artistic and historic allusions really summoned up the duality that resounds through every paving stone and brick of Barcelona itself. The sparkle and allure of sexual liberation, the euphoria of anti-religious experimentation, but round every corner the putrefying stench of such recent oppression, poverty and death. You got it all. The writing is stunning.
It really is a tremendous piece of work and very, very entertaining."
– Kate Margam, writer ("Milch Cow", "Poor Kevin")
"As far as language goes it’s one of the more beautiful books that I’ve read."
– Alana Woods, writer ("Imbroglio", "Automaton")
“Barcelona 1990 a blend of worlds and underworlds, a kaleidoscope of stories which interweave and fray apart, the sensation of imminent disaster… Will you be able to resist skipping to the last page?”
– Estrella Ramon, writer
Celia Room edition by Kevin Booth Literature Fiction eBooks
Booth, Kevin. Celia’s RoomIf your Spanish is up to it and you don’t lose patience with the epigraphs to every chapter then you could well enjoy Kevin Booth’s immersion into the Barcelona sub-culture of the 1990s. The novel begins with Eduardo’s struggle to confess his inabilty to reconcile himself with his father, who calls him a ‘faggot’ and refuses to pay his university fees in the arts faculty in Barcelona. We soon learn that Edu (as he’s called throughout) is a painter who has rented a huge decaying villa, which he soon fills with bohemians and junkies, mostly male. Early on the reader gets a feeling for Edu’s obsession with art when he exposes readers to a eulogy on a painting of a seductive whore. The it’s back to working with the hated father who tells his son to find a girlfriend. Then we move to Narcissus and Alvaro, two gay tenants, the first of the in-crowd whose promiscuous presence pervades the book. Edu remains throughout the book very much a disenchanted and disorientated loner.
Next the reader is plunged into the consciousness of another, more vibrant youth, the cynical world-weary Joaquin who vividly recalls a painting of Toledo. He too is not the son his father had hoped for. He in turn despises his father and wonders why. But at least his father is safely dead - as is his favourite sister, although this dual loss is only to be revealed later to the eponymous, and androgenous Celia. Thus our two heroes are drawn to Celia, who also has suffered bereavement.
Celia is the fulcrum who balances these two opposite males seeking fun, escape and all kinds of sexual experience. Edu paints her, while Joaquin admires him/her from afar. For Edu she is ‘a kind of Hollywood star sheathed in white satin,’ while Joaquin confesses she is ‘a strong presence’ and later ‘a powerful goddess’in his life.
So the transvestite Celia, with her false boobs and witch-like charms draws both Edu and Joaquin into her lair, and while Joaquin declares ‘I think I loved her, but I don’t know now,’ - - that is now that she is revealed as androgynous, Edu find that ‘Celia’s room was my best painting ever.’ Altogether an exciting, if demanding, adventure for the reader.
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Celia Room edition by Kevin Booth Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
The language in this book is beautiful, like the paintings the author describes.
It's the story of two young men whose lives collide in Barcelona in the years preceding the Olympic Games. From two different worlds they meet in a third; one reluctantly embracing it, the other repelled but drawn to it. Celia, while not the central character, is the catalyst who moves the two towards the ending.
As far as language goes it's one of the more beautiful books that I've read.
The reason I've given it four stars and not five is because the story itself didn't engage me as much as others have done. I feel regret about that. I would like to have been completely overwhelmed by it.
Booth, Kevin. Celia’s Room
If your Spanish is up to it and you don’t lose patience with the epigraphs to every chapter then you could well enjoy Kevin Booth’s immersion into the Barcelona sub-culture of the 1990s. The novel begins with Eduardo’s struggle to confess his inabilty to reconcile himself with his father, who calls him a ‘faggot’ and refuses to pay his university fees in the arts faculty in Barcelona. We soon learn that Edu (as he’s called throughout) is a painter who has rented a huge decaying villa, which he soon fills with bohemians and junkies, mostly male. Early on the reader gets a feeling for Edu’s obsession with art when he exposes readers to a eulogy on a painting of a seductive whore. The it’s back to working with the hated father who tells his son to find a girlfriend. Then we move to Narcissus and Alvaro, two gay tenants, the first of the in-crowd whose promiscuous presence pervades the book. Edu remains throughout the book very much a disenchanted and disorientated loner.
Next the reader is plunged into the consciousness of another, more vibrant youth, the cynical world-weary Joaquin who vividly recalls a painting of Toledo. He too is not the son his father had hoped for. He in turn despises his father and wonders why. But at least his father is safely dead - as is his favourite sister, although this dual loss is only to be revealed later to the eponymous, and androgenous Celia. Thus our two heroes are drawn to Celia, who also has suffered bereavement.
Celia is the fulcrum who balances these two opposite males seeking fun, escape and all kinds of sexual experience. Edu paints her, while Joaquin admires him/her from afar. For Edu she is ‘a kind of Hollywood star sheathed in white satin,’ while Joaquin confesses she is ‘a strong presence’ and later ‘a powerful goddess’in his life.
So the transvestite Celia, with her false boobs and witch-like charms draws both Edu and Joaquin into her lair, and while Joaquin declares ‘I think I loved her, but I don’t know now,’ - - that is now that she is revealed as androgynous, Edu find that ‘Celia’s room was my best painting ever.’ Altogether an exciting, if demanding, adventure for the reader.
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