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Oscar Wilde's clubkid.(BOOKS)(Book Review)

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From: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
Date: 20050101
Author:Healey, Trebor

Gutterboys

by Alvin Orloff

Manic D Press. 220 pages, $13.95 (paper)

ALVIN ORLOFF'S latest novel is yet another of his wonderfully whimsical yet astutely political gay tales. Set in the early 1980's, Gutterboys is the coming-of-age story of Jeremy, a postmodern gay New Wave clubkid anti-hero with blue hair, tight punky jeans, a neon lime-green skin-tight T-shirt (along with zillions of other outfits and hair colors, of course), and a fierce crush on the brilliant, gorgeous, intellectually rigorous, mill-town-born Colin, who never returns the love--or all the ...

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