num_pages: 336
description: In 1980, B. J. Rosenthal's only mission is to find himself a boyfriend and avoid setbacks like bad haircuts, bad sex, and Jewish guilt. In post-AIDS 1986, B.J.'s world has changed dramatically -- his friends and lovers are getting sick, everyone is at risk, and B.J. is panicking. Parrying high-wire wit against unbearable human tragedy, Eighty-Sixed now stands as a testament to an era. "If Woody Allen were gay and wrote novels, he'd produce something like David Feinberg's Eighty-Sixed." -- David Streitfeld, The Washington Post Book World "[Feinberg] has given us a painful story of one man coming of age in a terrifying age." -- The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) "Entertaining, harrowing, and powerfully unsensational." -- Booklist "[Eighty-Sixed] stands out for its frankness, ferocious wit, and total lack of sentimentality or self pity." -- Catherine Texier, The New York Times Book Review
language: English
title: Eighty-Sixed
titlecomplete: Eighty-Sixed
genres: Queer, Novels, Adult, Gay Fiction, LGBT, New York, Gay, Fiction, Queer Lit, Contemporary
ratings_count: 552
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Stonewall Book Award
category: Literature, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Debut Fiction and Gay Fiction
publisher: Grove Press