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The critically acclaimed author of Cathedral City and Desperate Hearts chronicles one man's erotic coming of age among the activists, intellectuals, hedonists, friends, and lovers of 1970s America... Life is good in Boulder, Colorado, in the heady hey-days of the 1970s. Ginsberg and Burroughs are in residence, and gay sexual liberation is both a political statement and a feverish, carnal dream lived out fully in the baths and the bars, in college dorm rooms and parks, in furtive looks and increasingly bold public statements. The world is alive with a new promise. And sex--glorious, abandoned, intense sex--is there for the taking. For everyone except King James. In addition to having the most ironic name ever for a gay man, King is saddled with other troubles. Young and beautiful, he can't seem to follow the only ground rule of his new life: anything goes but falling in love. Instead, the sensitive writer is constantly searching for that elusive connection. It's something he's looked for in every man he's ever slept with--the cruel, hypocritical Lex; hunky, closeted quarterback, Barry; the charismatic gay-rights leader, Sam; tragic Tim; erotic Matthew; and the uncompromising Theo who reminds King that "It's just sex, remember?" As his friends and lovers fight for their rights, twenty-one-year-old King embarks on his own mission--a journey of sexual and spiritual liberation that takes him into the steamy, dark voyeurism of the bathhouses and into the rarified world of intellectuals and poets who hold court at the L'Bar...And finally, his search will take him to the most surprising destination of all--himself.
