Fag Hag

Robert Rodi. Plume Books, $14 (304pp) ISBN 978-0-452-26940-8

This lively first novel shows how flamboyant Natalie Stathis (``Fag Hag'') reacts when her gay friend Peter takes up with a gun dealer. (Jan.)

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