from the cover:

"This haunting, brilliant novel is about a young man's obsessional search for love in the gay world. Malone is beautiful, kind, and good, adored and desired by all who know him. He is the subject of gossip and of dreams by the displaced homosexuals who inhabit this frenzied world. But Malone remains elusive and untouchable, a Galahad searching for his Holy Grail. In his quest he travels from encounters of romantic tenderness to the most hellish scenes of sexual hungers.

Malone witnesses and partakes of the demonic cravings of others. They lead him into the midnight parks of Greenwich Village - to the smoke-filled, drug-frenzied discotheques - to the purgatorial public baths, all containing lost souls looking for what they belive is redemption. In his Dantesque journey Malone is accompanied by a mentor, a tragic clown named Sutherland. Sutherland is a hilarious character who personifies the drag queen's self-inflicting wit. Dressed in Halston, encased in long black gloves past the elbows, he will drawl to a lovelorn boy, "My dear, if you're going to be serious I'd better change my clothes!" Sutherland is Malone's dark angel, his guide through the netherworld.

Malone passes through orgiastic fires and, after a bacchanalian party on Fire Island, comes to a mysterious end. Gossip about Malone now transcends into myth. The beautiful young man remains as elusive as the romantic love he personifies for all his lovers and fellow wanderers."

Wonderful book.

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