Tricks

It is hard to describe a book that is itself a description, and that is what Tricks is...a flat, matter of fact description of how the narrator meets the tricks, what each says to the other, where they go, how the rooms are furnished, and what the men do. One of the tricks is nuts; a number are very hairy the narrator has a...passion for the furry; there is a lot of anal and banal sex as well as oral and floral sex. Frottage flows. Gore Vidal Camus world is completely that of a new urban homosexual; at ease in half a dozen countries, sexually versatile and proficient.... Tricks is, simply and elegantly, a portrait of on part of the life of a contemporary gay man. Dennis Altman, author of Homosexuality: Oppression or Liberation Accurate Tricks, rapid, intellectual, cold, self-conscious. exciting, a very French and reasonable account of one-night stands: The prose sketches out lots of particular details of bars, beds, streets, marvelously well-intentioned. Allen Ginsberg