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A noir tour-de-force set in the world of hustlers from "one of America's darkest and funniest chroniclers." (The Guardian)
It's New York City, 1981, and everyone wants to be at the Emerson Club, from Cindy Crawford to Cindy Adams; from Famous Roger, one-time lion of the talk shows, to Sandy Miller, the "downtown" writer with the tattoos and the leather; from Lauren Hutton to the art star who does the thing with the broken plates. Everyone, that is, except Danny.
Danny just works there, waiting tables to put himself through architecture school, turning tricks on the side. And when he’s not on the clock, he is recording the sexual, aesthetic, and financial transactions that make up his life, in gruesome detail.
But even a clever boy like Danny can wind up on the menu. Blinded by love for his fellow rent boy, Chip—as gorgeous as he is reckless—Danny is about to learn that there is more than one way to turn your body into cash and that cynicism is no defense when the real scalpels come out.
A gimlet-eyed crime novel with an inventively filthy mind, Rent Boy is Gary Indiana at his most outrageous—and his best.
Contains mature themes.
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“It is literature with the filter off: on the one hand, an account of life as lived outside mainstream acceptance; on the other, a telling entirely unrestrained by political correctness…Rent Boy is a multifaceted little gem, a world of ‘Versailles at 78rpm,’ and the sort of funny, sick, weird little book you never forget.”
— The Critic
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“A funny book with a high degree of linguistic sophistication. It also contains all the four-letter words, plus graphic descriptions…Danny, the ‘rent boy’ of the title, is…a distant, debauched cousin of Holden Caulfield—a youthful truth-teller who sees himself surrounded by phonies.”
— Los Angeles Times Book Review
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About Gary Indiana
Gary Indiana (1950–2024) was a novelist, playwright, actor, art critic, and film historian, considered one of the most supple and imaginative figures in contemporary American culture. He was called "one of the most important chroniclers of the modern psyche" by the London Guardian. He wrote numerous plays, novels, and works of nonfiction, including Horse Crazy, Rent Boy, and Utopia’s Debris. Formerly the chief art critic for the Village Voice, he also wrote for the Los Angeles Times Book Review, New York magazine, Artforum, and the London Review of Books.