Plays well with others
By: Allan Gurganus.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
Subjects: Friendship -- Fiction; AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
Description: Plays Well with Others chronicles a ragtag group of gifted kids who come to seek their fortunes; they find the low-paying joys of making art and the heady education only multiple erotic partners can provide. Having mythologized each other through the boom years, having commenced becoming "names," they suddenly encounter a brand-new disease like something out of fifth-rate sci-fi.

Friends are soon questioning how much they really owe each other; they're left with the ancient consolation of one another's company and help. We watch this egotistic circle forge its single greatest masterwork: a healthy community.