{"id":109,"date":"2008-12-19T16:32:33","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T22:32:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-19T09:50:11","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T14:50:11","slug":"a_push_and_a_shove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/a_push_and_a_shove\/","title":{"rendered":"A Push and a Shove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Find this book in a library near you.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/144596584\">Kelly, Christopher. <em>A Push and a Shove.<\/em> New York: Alyson Books, 2007. 312 p. Paperback. ISBN: 9781593500481. $14.95<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0pt none; float: left; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/a-push-and-shove-197x300.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Cover of the book, A Push and a Shove.\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/a-push-and-shove-197x300.png 197w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/a-push-and-shove.png 322w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/>Christopher Kell&#8217;s first novel shows the destructive effects of bullying and sexual obsession. Terrence O&#8217;Connell first called Ben Reilly &#8220;gaywad&#8221; when they were in seventh grade in 1986. Ben didn&#8217;t fight back because he knew that Terrence&#8217;s name-calling was true\u2013and because he was in love with Terrence. Terrence&#8217;s bullying continued until their junior year in high school when he followed Ben home one day. Ben knows he will always remember Terrence saying, &#8220;Don&#8217;t fall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ten years later, a violent incident at the Staten Island high school where Ben teaches revives his bad memories. Ben vows to locate Terrence and get revenge\u2013by seducing him. Finding that Terrence is a successful magazine writer in New York, Ben contacts him. Can &#8220;old enemies&#8221; become &#8220;new friends&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Nobody knows a bully as well as his victim. And Ben is relentless in his pursuit of Terrence. Kelly drenches the cat-and-mouse scenes between the two young men with sexual tension and clever dialogue. Ben thinks he knows what he wants; Terrence doesn&#8217;t know who he is. When they go mountain biking in Vail, push finally comes to shove. They both find that getting revenge can really be a bitch.<\/p>\n<p><em>A Push and a Shove<\/em> is a swift-moving, entertaining, yet disturbing novel. Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Debut Fiction, this novel is highly recommended for gay fiction collections.<\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by W. Stephen Breedlove<br \/>\nReference Librarian\/Interlibrary Loan Coordinator<br \/>\nLa Salle University Library<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly, Christopher. A Push and a Shove. New York: Alyson Books, 2007. 312 p. Paperback. ISBN: 9781593500481. $14.95 Christopher Kell&#8217;s first novel shows the destructive effects of bullying and sexual obsession. Terrence O&#8217;Connell first called Ben Reilly &#8220;gaywad&#8221; when they were in seventh grade in 1986. Ben didn&#8217;t fight back because he knew that Terrence&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}