The Coming of the Night

A stunning evocation of gay desire in the moment just before AIDs by the acclaimed author of City of Night : “Taut writing and unapologetic sexual energy” ( The Dallas Morning News ).   It is 1981, a hot summer night, and an unscripted ritual is about to take place. Jesse, “the kid,” is celebrating one year on the dazzling gay scene and plans to lose himself in its transient pleasures. Clint has fled New York with a sense of unease in the wake of a vicious gay-bashing. Buzz, Boo, Toro, Fred