Synopses & Reviews
For a generation, Ethan Morddens tales about a tightly knit circle of friends who live within the shifting confines of gay Manhattan have entertained tens of thousands of readers and devoted fans. Now Mordden returns to his best-loved characters - the ultimate hunk Carlo; the best friend Dennis Savage; J. (who was once Little Kiwi); Cosgrove the maturing elf-child; and narrator and ultimate observer Bud - in this eagerly awaited new volume in the cycle. Hows Your Romance? brings the series and the characters full circle from the early days just post-Stonewall to the vicissitudes, delights, and challenges of the early twenty-first century. Blending the comic, the sexy, the tragic, and the at once realistic and idealistic, these stories are Mordden at his very best. Ethan Mordden is the author of dozens of books, both fiction and non-fiction. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Baum Bugle, and the late and unlamented Christopher Street. He has recently completed The Happiest Corpse I've Ever Seen: The Last 25 Years of the Broadway Musical. He lives in Manhattan. For a generation, Ethan Mordden's tales about a tightly knit circle of friends who live within the shifting confines of gay Manhattan have entertained tens of thousands of readers and devoted fans. Now Mordden returns to his best-loved charactersthe ultimate hunk Carlo; the best friend Dennis Savage; J. (who was once Little Kiwi); Cosgrove the maturing elf-child; and narrator and ultimate observer Budin this new volume in the cycle. How's Your Romance? brings the series and the characters full circlefrom the early days just post-Stonewall to the vicissitudes, delights, and challenges of the early twenty-first century. Blending the comic, the sexy, the tragic, and the at once realistic and idealistic, these stories are Mordden at his very best. [The publication of How's Your Romance] offers an opportunity to look back on a work that has kept pace with its subject: modern American gay life . . . [an] addition to what is overall an entertaining, informative and stylish series."Dennis Drabelle, The Washington Post Book World
Synopsis
For a generation, Ethan Mordden's tales about a tightly knit circle of friends who live within the shifting confines of gay Manhattan have entertained tens of thousands of readers and devoted fans. Now Mordden returns to his best-loved characters - the ultimate hunk Carlo; the best friend Dennis Savage; J. (who was once Little Kiwi); Cosgrove the maturing elf-child; and narrator and ultimate observer Bud - in this eagerly awaited new volume in the cycle. How's Your Romance? brings the series and the characters full circle - from the early days just post-Stonewall to the vicissitudes, delights, and challenges of the early twenty-first century. Blending the comic, the sexy, the tragic, and the at once realistic and idealistic, these stories are Mordden at his very best.
Synopsis
A final installment of the series that includes Everybody Loves You and Some Men Are Lookers finds a tightly knit circle of friends living within the confines of gay Manhattan and entering the twenty-first century with memories of the events that shaped their lives. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
About the Author
Ethan Mordden is the author of dozens of books, both fiction and non-fiction. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker and many other magazines and journals. He lives in Manhattan.