Queer's Progress

<p>Two young men fall in love in 90s New York: Can they make a go of it? They come from different worlds: Fatherless Eduardo a student was born in Cuba while suburban-raised Andrew is aiming for an academic career. But with help from Ned an older master of gay Manhattan Eduardo and Andrew will give it their best shot!</p><p> </p><p>But though Ned gives hands-on instruction as required he also sees a way to use first Andrew then Eduardo for the benefit of his own stalled literary career. He schemes and manipulates in order to get his novel published-because all's fair in love and war and <em>art.</em></p><p><em> </em></p><p>This compelling (and partly autobiographical) story of young love follows Andrew's stumbling progress in pursuit of Eduardo as Eduardo flees a pregnant hookup and his mom's Harlem apartment to flop on his oldest friend's floor his best friend's couch in Andrew's bed at the West Side Y on a patch of Central Park ivy-and a jail cell or two. <em>Queer's Progres</em>s races towards inevitability in a tale by turns urbane emotional and dryly witty.</p>