From the first editon dustjacket (1980)
In this hilarious and moving account of any life in New York City---part novel, part autobiography---we meet Danny Slocum, a young gay man with a problem: sex (or is it love?). Wanting it, but certainly not finding it, even in a time when gay life is, if anything, overpopulated. But still...preoccupied, if dysfunctional. How Danny gets cured in sex therapy with a complete stranger is just part of the story. In the course of his remarkable adventures, Danny takes us along on a sometimes bumpy but always entertaining trip through gay life in the big city. Sociable and bizarre, bleak and joyous, it's a world like any other world: a place you live in and try to make your home.