Blackbird

Larry Duplechan. St. Martin's Press, $13.95 (182pp) ISBN 978-0-312-08340-3

Young, black and gay, high-school student Johnnie Ray Rousseau has an all-consuming affair with a blond, godlike filmmaker. PW noted that the author ""captures the bouncy exuberance of California adolesence'' while ``exploiting some of the cliches of gay society.'' (August)