Gutter Boys

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Gutter Boys is a twisted tale of steamy gay sex and unrequited love in Lower Manhattan in the early 80s. Filled with scenes of humorous debauchery and explicitly depicted anonymous sex, this wanton outing portrays a carnal world of orgiastic delights that may never exist again. Jeremy, a shy 19 year old falls madly in love with Colin, a disturbed, yet brilliant, older hustler. Though he rejects Jeremy as a lover, Colin takes him on as his protege, and introduces him to the hilariously depraved world of new wave nightclubs and gay bars in the days before AIDS.

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"Even readers prepared for Orloff's sneaky, fun brilliance will be knocked on their butts."

Author Bio

Alvin Orloff began writing in 1977 as a teenage lyricist for The Blowdryers, an early San Francisco punk band. He spent all of the 1980s and much of the 1990s dabbling in performance art, underground theater, night clubs, political activism, and cabaret, and zine writing before remembering that all he'd ever wanted to be was a novelist. His first work, I Married an Earthling, came out in 2000 and his second, Gutter Boys, in 2004. His latest novel, Why Aren't You Smiling releases in fall 2011. His day job is managing Dog Eared Books, a literary hot-spot in the heart of San Francisco's ber-trendy Mission District.