Book Review: Roller Rink Starlight by William Hart
Roller Rink Starlight is a memoir by William Hart that wistfully recalls the 1960s when he was young. Dominating the book is the passion, in a climate where lies the coolness to let yourself be penetrated by its fragility. And, in this sense, the book becomes a symbol of a society evolving to manage relationships and affections. The book, on the other hand, offers a lucid look at those times gone by. The prismatic characters, the relationships connoted in all their complexity, mean that with the never tragic yet profound ironic touch, William Hart makes us reflect on the institution of the family and monogamy, and prefigure the fragility of some conquests that all epoch seemed imminent, like equality between the sexes. Set in Wichita, Kansas, William Hart traces his relationships with Katy Linsey, at the tender age of fourteen and later with Lauren McCabe, that changes his life later. They were young and at the mercy of their inner world, of shyness, of prudery, of the unspoken, of l