Coverup | 
Jay Bennett was a commercial writer able to change with the trends of the times. He wrote first for radio dramas in the forties than transitioned to television in the fifties (adapting Hamlet into a serialized “Shakespearean soap opera”) & then to editing and novel writing, writing YA novels in the 90s. This book may be trash but I respect a writer who kept at it. Knowing he adapted Hamlet does make me wonder if he saw Gatsby elements in Coverup.
panWorse than usual 90s teen fare. The truncated, repetitive sentences reach a pitch of hilarity (“Some one was killed. Killed instantly without a sound or a murmur. But killed. Killed.”). Behind this hit-&-run story is a more interesting one of Brad & Gatsby—er, Alden‘s—closeted love. Bennett dips into moody teenage angst and the result is delightful (“I thought we would be friends to the end of our lives. Like the sun in the sky. Like that.”).
