Love Junkie

A humorous tour of the New York City gay scene in the early 80's. Quite instructive if you're an aging straight guy from the Left Coast like me. The jacket copy calls our narrator a "triumphant Emma Bovary for our parlous times", but the comparison ends at both being bored housewives. It's more like a fish-out-of-water, clash-of-cultures sort of thing as Mimi gets more and more enmeshed with a subculture she finds fascinating. It doesn't work as well as Plunket's first novel (My Search For Warren Harding) because that novel had more of a variety of characters and situations going on. I'm guessing that this one didn't sell well and Plunket sort of gave up writing. Too bad, because American culture has so much more of the material that show more Plunket mines in these two novels with comedic effect. show less

Hilarious View of Gay 80s NYC from Outsider's View: This book is one of the 3 or 4 laugh out loud funny books I have ever read. I think it is best appreciated by gay men who lived through the 1980s and have a broad sense of humor.