
The first novel from the brilliant, protean Gary Indiana, Horse Crazy tells the story of a thirty-five-year-old writer for a New York arts & culture magazine whose life melts into a fever dream when he falls in love with the handsome, charming, possibly heroin-addicted, & almost certainly insane Gregory Burgess. In the derelict brownstones of the Lower East Side in the late eighties, among the coked-out restauranteurs & art world impresarios of the supposed `downtown scene, ` the narrator wanders through the fog of passion. Meanwhile, the AIDS epidemic is spreading through the city, & New York friendships sputter to an end. Here is a novel where the only moral is that thwarted passion is the truest passion, where love is a hallucination & the gravest illness is desire. Angela Carter wrote ` This is what Love in the Time of Cholera is like for real` when Horse Crazy was first published in 1989. This new edition brings the `razor sharp` & `frequently brilliant` (Publishers Weekly) novel back into print after many years.