the book

“Back then was before people had tapped into the idea of a teenage girl meaning anything in the market,” said Holzman, who wrote the book for the blockbuster musical “Wicked” and co-wrote the screenplay of the recent film adaptation.

But, because I was in Boston with Luca making this other movie, we got to spend a lot of time talking about the vision of “Queer,” and the cinematic possibility of the book before I even started writing.

I tried to pay attention to what was fundamental in the book so I could figure out what would be fundamental in the movie.

The book is very coy in some sense about the intimate scenes between Lee and Allerton.

Doctor Cotter shows up towards the end of the book, but in the book, they get to Doctor Cotter’s hut and think they are going to get the yagé, but that possibility is closed, and they return to civilization not having gotten what they came for.