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In 1980, B. J. Rosenthals only mission is to find himself a boyfriend and avoid setbacks like bad haircuts, bad sex, and Jewish guilt. In post-AIDS 1986, B.J.s world has changed dramatically his friends and lovers are getting sick, everyone is at risk, and B.J. is panicking. Parrying high-wire wit against unbearable human tragedy, Eighty-Sixed now stands as a testament to an era. If Woody Allen were gay and wrote novels, hed produce something like David Feinbergs Eighty-Sixed. David Streitfeld, The Washington Post Book World [Feinberg] has given us a painful story of one man coming of age in a terrifying age. The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) Entertaining, harrowing, and powerfully unsensational. Booklist [Eighty-Sixed] stands out for its frankness, ferocious wit, and total lack of sentimentality or self pity. Catherine Texier, The New York Times Book Review

Author: David B. Feinberg
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 07/12/2002
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.50w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9780802139023
Language: English