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Sean Devlin, a twenty‑year‑old with a boyish innocence, drops out of Columbia University to immerse himself in downtown New York’s avant‑garde film world. Surrounded by hustlers, an urbane mentor, and a rising performance artist, he is drawn into the nightlife of clubs such as Studio 54 and the Flamingo. The story captures a subterranean New York of drugs, dim lights, and erotic rituals that have since vanished. Devlin’s journey is both a quest for cinematic greatness in the style of Warhol and a self‑exploration that turns him into the ultimate voyeur of his own life as seen through his camera.
First publish date: 1996
Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction/Gay Fiction
Authors: Brad Gooch
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