MixedThe Washington PostIt’s in New York that White’s novel comes most alive, even if Guy remains indistinct to both himself and the reader ... But Our Young Man is not without its disappointments and failures. The novel’s sex scenes, for instance, too often recall those in Gordon Merrick’s overwrought 1970 gay novel, The Lord Won’t Mind, in which there’s quite a lot of what one might think of as men erotically brandishing their gleaming swords.
