Plays Well with Others
Allan Gurganus achieved national fame in 1988 for his award-winningOldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All.  Through this long, garrulous novel, Gurganus retold and explicated almost a century of American history, life, and culture. InPlays Well with Others, Gurganus applies a similar technique to the New York gay art scene in the 1980s, just as AIDS is appearing. Narrated by Hartley Mins, a young artist who "came to New York to write," the novel is an elegiac reminiscence of a culture that, by encouraging personal and sexual freedom, instilled in its artists the ability to create in the face of mortality, love in the midst of loss, and care in a world in which hope is vanishing. ReadingPlays Well with Othersis a heady experience: its images and emotions spill into our imaginations and lives, forcing us to reexamine how we see the world and how we  look at art.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.