'...the gay Gone With The Wind.' EDMUND WHITE 'A stirring account of five turbulent decades of growing self-confidence, growing defiance.' MICHAEL KERRIGAN 'Picano has a fine narrative voice, and a good eye for both humour and pathos which keeps the pages turning.' GAY TIMES 'a powerful, intelligent and also very sexy eulogy to a gay male subculture lost forever. Sensational.' THUD

Felice Picano, author of fifteen books, is a founding member of the legendary Violet Quill Club. A major leader of the modern gay literary movement, he lives in Los Angeles.