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Title	:	Horse Crazy
Author	:	Gary Indiana
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 218 pages
Published	:	1990 by Plume Fiction (first published January 1st 1989)
Categories	:	Fiction. LGBT. Gay. Gay Fiction. GLBT. Queer. Animals. Horses

Horse Crazy

Gary Indiana

Paperback | Pages: 218 pages

Rating: 3.96 | 146 Users | 18 Reviews

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A love story set in the age of AIDS, Horse Crazy tells of a successful 35-year-old writer's obsession with a beautiful, young would-be artist and former junkie. Caught in an emotional trap of his own devising, and with his ex-lover lying in a hospital dying of AIDS, the writer is forced to confront his own mortality in this brilliant novel of erotic obsession in the gay subculture of New York's East Village.

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Original Title:	Horse Crazy
ISBN:	0452264278 (ISBN13: 9780452264274)
Edition Language:	English

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Harrowing. I could relate to it so well. It plunged me back into my 20s ... Also, it's an incredibly evocative portrait of the time and place that was 80s NYC.



Drugs, homosexuality, New York...

Gary Indiana is a wise and well-respected art critic. a photo of him will show a man who looks really gnomish, wizened well beyond his years, an almost malnourished version of Truman Capote. he is not even remotely a traditionally handsome guy. i say this not to be critical or demeaning; my point is that this is a man who has experienced difference his entire life - so i hoped his perspective would be informed by perhaps something of an outsider mentality. and this lack - combined with the

"Or do people like to poison themselves and each other with morality when the slightest pleasure makes it possible to breathe for a change."I thought this to be an outstanding dissection of a relationship (in this case, homosexual, but I agree with William Burroughs in that this is "an archetypical story, expertly told. Fascinating to everyman, no matter what his sexual tastes" - or hers, come to that). In some ways - obliquely - it reminded me of the obsessive love story, "The Tunnel" by

Despite being anchored (figuratively and literally) by a deeply frustrating tale of unrequited love, this first novel by Gary Indiana is a knock out. Like fog on the city streets in a film noir, interspersed throughout are some of the most devastating and astute observations of the physical and emotional toll rendered by AIDS crisis that I've ever read. Those who read the novel as about a sexless "love affair" between the narrator and the his muse miss the forest for the trees. This is an AIDS

I just wrote that I never wanted "to read another story about a sad sack young man in love with a 'crazy.'" Yet I just finished another book about a sad sack (not young) man in love with a "crazy." In this case it's an older vain writer in love with a younger beautiful man, who won't sleep with the writer, yet the young beauty proclaims his love, while the writer grows paranoid and crazy, and gives us a very nasty portrait of his vain, deceitful, disloyal, and duplicitous "boyfriend." My friend