Martin Bauman; or, A Sure Thing

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [xii], 387. Quarter-bound in black cloth over paper covered black boards, lettered in gilt to spine; burgundy endpapers. Jacket design by Michael Ian Kaye (priced $26.00 to front flap).

A fictionalized memoir of a young writer's coming of age in get-ahead eighties Manhattan, sharply depicting his urgency to get into print while finding his way out of the closet at the dawn of the AIDS epidemic. "One of his generation's most gifted writers." –The New York Times