Scary Kisses

"The East Village in the early eighties - Andy Warhol, DBGBs, Max's Kansas City, 'flower shops' on St. Mark's Place, carnival-barking madmen in Tompkins Square Park - what's a boy like Todd doing in a place like this? He's working the front desk nine-to-five at an uptown travel agency and drifting through a youthfully close relationship with his girlfriend Lucy - a relationship that hasn't yet found its dark side, but it's about to. Todd just doesn't belong here; for one thing, he's just too damn good looking. When a modeling scout's business card is slipped into Todd's hand, a door is opened to a new world: a bazaar of celebrity, money, drugs, bisexuality, and old-school indulgence - he is welcomed to the eighties. Todd and Lucy's tour through this underworld is guided by Frank, a cynical model with an omnivorous appetite, whose presence insinuates itself into all aspecs of their lives, breaking their bond with every inhibition, just as he threatens to break their bond with each other and to the selves they thought they knew."--Page 4 of cover.