num_pages: 314
description: Billy Sive is the most exciting thing that's happened to U.S. sports in years. He's a champion long distance runner, idol of American youth and the nation's best Olympic hope... Billy Sive is young, proud and gay - and he doesn't care who knows it... Billy Sive is the Front Runner in this riveting breakthrough novel of homosexual love in the sports world; a bestseller that has won coast-to-coast acclaim as a love story as moving as any ever written... as a candid look into the psychological and physical experience of the new gay world... as a joyous, touching and triumphant novel of love.
language: English
title: The Front Runner
titlecomplete: The Front Runner
characters: Vince Matti, Harlan Brown, Jacques LaFont, Billy Sive, Betsy Heden
genres: Historical, Sports, Queer, Classics, M M Romance, Gay Fiction, LGBT, Gay, Fiction, Romance
ratings_count: 5793
places: Montreal, Quebec (Montréal, Québec), The United States of America, New York City, New York, New York (State), Canada
series: Harlan's Story
publisher: Bantam Books