From Publishers Weekly
Picano's zesty, autobiographical novel depicting 20 years in the life of a brainy, gay bon vivant launches Masquerade's Hard Candy imprint dedicated to "non-pornographic gay men's fiction."
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
This second installment of Picano's fictionalized autobiography (following Ambidextrous: The Secret Lives of Children , Gay. Pr., 1985) covers a relatively brief period in the mid-1960s when the author was in his early 20s. It has two main focal points--a sojourn in Rome during which he fulfills his objective of becoming homosexual and his life as one of the Jane Street "girls" back in New York a couple of years prior to Stonewall. In part the tale of a young man's search for identity and an examination of life in a world on the verge of change, its often pretentious, self-indulgent, and gossipy tone also suggests a put-on (at least one hopes it's a put-on) of the tell-it-all tales now so popular. It is further marred by loose editing (i.e., implausible time frames, Michael York playing Tybalt and not Mercutio in Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet ) and a weak ending. Still, it has some wonderful episodes--e.g., tea with "aunty" W.H. Auden--and thus should find an audience. For popular fiction collections.
- David W. Henderson, Eckerd Coll. Lib., St. Petersburg, Fla.Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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