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Plot / Content: Rating: G "When homosexuals 'cruise', they are looking for kicks, love, relief, whatever. When cops cruise, they are looking for crime and criminals; and some also for their own kicks. In this boo, the two sides meet, with such startling verisimilitude that one constantly turns back to the beginning to make sure that this is fiction and not fact. "The scene is New York City. The time is mainly night, when a man prowls the parks and streets killing homosexuals. John Lynch is one of ten rookie cops ordered out on decoy duty to impersonate homosexuals in the hope of enticing the killer. Captain Edelson is the detective who orchestrates the chase. "The harrowing story of these three men, the entrapment of the gay who are not so gay, the sexual minority who are brutalized by society as well as by each other, reads like a combination of Midnight Cowboy and The Boston Strangler told with a literary quality like that of Simenon. Gerald Walker makes his impressive début with a very tough book, hard to take, hard to put down, as hard to forget as a bad dream full of clues about what the good and bad in us are trying desperately to suppress." (from the hardback jacket) Filming for the 1980 move of the book, starring Al Pacino and directed by William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection), was frequently interrupted by demonstrations by gay activists protesting the negative image of gay men that it portrayed. For more information and discussion, see the wikipedia article on the film. Background / Biography: "Gerald Walker has been writing for eighteen years, though Cruising is his first published novel. After he graduated from New York University in 1950 he did three years' postgraduate work at Columbia, then worked in theatrical publicity in and out of New York for another three years, all the while writing fiction, plays and opera libretti. "Then he became a freelance journalist and from 1956 to 1963 contributed articles and reviews to just about every major periodical, and some others, in the United States. Since 1963, the year after he was President of the Society of Magazine Writers, he has been an editor of the New York Times Magazine. "He wrote Cruising in his spare time over five years and is now working on a second novel. He is married with a son and lives in New York." (from the hardback jacket) Reviews: "An unforgettable study of one of America's most persistent sexual nightmares" Gore Vidal "Brilliant study of America's nightmarish male homosexual scene... As harrowing as a bad dream, with a distinct Midnight Cowboy touch" Peter Bloxham "A pyschological accuracy and moral intensity that makes this novel very hard to put down" Ross MacDonald "A harsh-edged distinction ... as readable as Simenon" The Guardian (from the paperback cover) Arbery Books also sells secondhand and rare non-gay fiction and non-fiction. Click here for our full list. |
"'Too fast for you, love?' Talk, talk, they're always talking to you. He noticed that what's-his-name - Eric? Alec? - was leading him by a step. They were walking downtown on the park side of Central Park West, opposite the Museum of Natural History. Eric-Alec had picked him up five minutes earlier and already spoke as if he owned him. Never mind how it looks, he thought, I'm way ahead of you. 'What's your hurry?' 'How's that?' Eric-Alec said. 'That's how.' He nodded toward the headlights of a prowl car at the 77th Street park entrance. 'Always the fuzz,' Eric-Alec said. 'That how they get their kicks, watching us?'" opening paragraphs Secondhand booksellers |
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