num_pages: 504
description: Eager to escape the provincialism of the West, William Parker, a shy, impotent stutterer who is insecure about himself and his sexuality, leaves Jackson Hole for Manhattan, where he finds himself surrounded by people who understand him and becomes embroiled in a love affair with an African-American drag queen, but the AIDS epidemic could destroy everything. 30,000 first printing.
language: English
title: In The City Of Shy Hunters
titlecomplete: In The City Of Shy Hunters
genres: Fiction, Queer, LGBT, Gay Fiction, Queer Lit, Literature, New York, Literary Fiction, Race, Gay
ratings_count: 695
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Fiction
publisher: Grove Pr