The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket: A Novel" ... A terrifically moving and often disarminly funny book about survival during days when gay men find themselves attending funerals with the frequency they once went to parties, when the currency of sex has been revalued, and when the very act of staying alive has raised the stakes of every relationship. Before it set in (his irreversible decline) Eddie Socket had had always suspected that he was on the verge of something. Now that 'something' has arrived, in the form of Merrit Mather, an attractive older man of impeccable taste in everything from sweaters to his numerous conquests ..."--Page 4 of cover |
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