As Henry Flesh's brilliant first novel begins, it is the mid-'90s, a time when the "sweetness" of AIDS lies across Manhattan like "a nebulous gloom...a deep distress." Randy, an erotic masseur, becomes involved with a client, Graham Mason, a famous, dying writer. Their sadomasochistic trysts soon become much more than business: Graham searches for his long-dead lover in the angelic face of Randy, and for the lost pleasure-world of the '60s and '70s--while Randy discovers in Graham the powerful image...   [ read more ]

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