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’Toño
Cocky and charming, a New York hustler happily burning through his youth tells how his world turns upside down when he falls into the orbit of ’Toño, a muscular wall of sexual heat operating an obscenely lucrative call boy ring on Manhattan's Upper East Side. His sordid tale of love, lust and deep dysfunction reveals the disturbing science behind 'Tono's business, which he soon realizes is a sticky web of money and violence ensnaring him as both perpetrator and victim. Set against the surreal backdrop of 9/11 and its aftermath, he chronicles his headlong dive into the debauchery and seemingly certain doom with wit, brilliance and an unsettling insouciance. As he haplessly admits, "Desire is addiction and I was hooked." Spoiler Don’t expect a visit to Betty Ford.
287 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 4, 2014
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About the author
John Morse
37 booksJohn Morse has been writing professionally since he was 16, when he got a job as a stringer for the local weekly newspaper. Though his writing background is largely journalistic, including books on a broad range of subjects, recently his poetry has received widespread coverage in such news outlets as the New York Times, The GuardianUK, New Yorker, The Rachel Maddow Show, New York Magazine, NPR and the BBC. He is also an accomplished visual artist who has exhibited throughout the United States and in Europe. An extensive catalogue of his work can be found at his studio website www.StarDogStudio.com, including a video of his most recent piece, “The Color Spectrum at the Guggenheim,” a pop-up guerilla installation/performance in New York in July 2014.
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