Some Boys

Some Boys is the 1969 sequel to Michael Davidson's The World, the Flesh and Myself which was previously published in 1962. The earlier work was described by Arthur Koestler as the "twofold story of a courageous and lovable person's struggle to come to terms with his Grecian heresy and of a brilliant journalist's fight against colonial jingoism" and it scandalized the "respectable" world with its opening sentence: "This is the life history of a lover of boys".

Davidson's sequel is still more revealing. Some Boys is a fond memoir of the author's young friends across four decades and as many continents: from Marrakech to Saigon, Ischia to Lahore. Written with the discernment and observation of a brilliant journalist, these recollections combine erotic intenseness with an unerring personal empathy, and show throughout a keen and sensitive perception for the diversity of international customs and culture in the middle twentieth century -- much of which is now gone forever.