TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kobek,Jarett
TI  - The future won't be long
SN  - 9781781258552 (hardback)
U1  - 823.92 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - Serpent's Tail, an imprint of Profile Books
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Fiction
KW  - City and town life
KW  - Gay men
KW  - Art students
KW  - New York (N.Y.)
N2  - It's the tail-end of 1986 and Baby is the freshest-faced, starriest-eyed young homo in all of New York City, straight off the bus from closeted backwoods Wisconsin. Adeline is his rich-art-school-kid saviour with a bizarre transatlantic drawl and a spare bed. The Future Won't Be Long follows Baby and Adeline as they cling to each other for dear life through a decade of mad, bad New York life punctuated by the deaths of Warhol, Basquiat and Wojnarowicz and the forcible gentrification of the East Village. While Adeline develops into the artist she never really expected to become, Baby falls into a twilight zone of clubbing, ketamine and late-capitalistic sexual excess. As he struggles to find his way out again, Baby will test the strength of a friendship that had seemed unbreakable. -- Publisher
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