The Salt Point

Paul Russell. Plume Books, $8.95 (224pp) ISBN 978-0-452-26592-9

Leigh, a teenaged hustler, enthralls Lydia, gay hairdresser Anatole and bisexual Christopher in this tale of alcoholism, drugs and shifting relationships set in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. According to PW, ``Graphic homosexual encounters combined with some graceful writing might remind readers of Edmund White, although Russell doesn't aim to be quite so literary . '' (Mar.)

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