Objects of Desire by Neil Blackmore #foliosociety Behind the smile

Behind the smile

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In the great revolutionary year of 1968

Objects of Desire by Neil Blackmore #foliosociety Behind the smileHugo Hunter was the most celebrated gay novelist of the 20th century. He published two masterpieces, securing his place alongside the dazzling literary greats of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and rubbing shoulders with everyone from Truman Capote to James Baldwin, Gore Vidal and George Orwell. But after decades of fame and excess, just as New York City enters the 1980s and awakes to the coming horror of AIDS, Hugo finds himself running out of money. Out of