THE WINTER OF OUR DISCOTHQUE
Andrew W. M. Beierle, . . Kensington, $23 (392pp) ISBN 978-0-7582-0141-6
Rainbow beach bags will open wide to receive this campy first novel about an aging gay actor who takes a young man under his wing in the pre-AIDS 1970s. In South Beach Gulf, Florida, overweight movie and TV star Dallas Eden becomes so captivated by a beautiful boy working at a gas station that he kicks out Alessandro, his current live-in "inamorata," and takes the new boy in. An aimless surfer with a rocky childhood, Tony Alexamenos accepts the invitation to relocate to the exquisite mansion Dallas shares with his mother. Tony enjoys Dallas's distanced Svengali role and enrolls at Sanctuary College as a theater major, where he meets Connecticut, a closeted teacher. Their whirlwind romance moves them to Manhattan, where Tony gets cast in a production of
Reviewed on: 02/25/2002
Genre: Fiction
Paperback - 400 pages - 978-0-7582-0142-3