Full Description
A sixteen-year-old gay painter, Julian Esmeralda arrives in Provincetown to seek success while the AIDS epidemic is in full swing and devastating the local art community. A first novel.
Contents
1. Origins -- 2. The passing word -- 3. First love, first blood -- 4. Julian's heroic period -- 5. Fall comes again -- 6. Dooley Jones and Bill Wilband -- 7. Reunion -- 8. Selwyn -- 9. Melopsittacus -- 10. Nelson Ryder -- 11. A funeral -- 12. Festivities-- 13. Chris Whitman -- 14. Thanksgiving -- 15. At the hospital -- 16. Letitia -- 17. Baxter -- 18. Nicky -- 19. Nelson departs -- 20. More ashes -- 21. Adam and Chad -- 22. Past and future meet -- 23. A party -- 24. The dunes -- 25. Make believe -- 26. Rest in the mystery.
