GUTTER BOYS

GUTTER BOYS
Alvin Orloff

A twisted tale of steamy gay sex and unrequited love in Lower Manhattan in the early 1980s, filled with scenes of humorous debauchery and explicitly depicted anonymous sex. Jeremy, a shy 19-year-old, falls madly in love with Colin, a disturbed, yet brilliant, older hustler. Though Colin rejects Jeremy as a lover, he takes him on as a protégé, introducing him to the hilarious, depraved world of new wave nightclubs and bay bars in the days before Aids and the war on drugs. Innocent Jeremy, protected by the guardian spirits of his beloved dead grandmothers - one a fiery Jewish socialist, the other a proper British matron - becomes increasingly unstable under the strain of his unanswered devotion.

221 pages, paperback