{"product_id":"horse-crazy-by-gary-indiana","title":"Horse Crazy by Gary Indiana","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe first novel from the brilliant, protean Gary Indiana, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHorse Crazy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e tells the story of a thirty-five-year-old writer for a New York arts and culture magazine whose life melts into a fever dream when he falls in love with the handsome, charming, possibly heroin-addicted, and almost certainly insane Gregory Burgess. In the derelict brownstones of the Lower East Side in the late eighties, among the coked out restauranteurs and art world impresarios of the supposed \"downtown scene,\" the narrator wanders through the fog of passion. Meanwhile, the AIDS epidemic is spreading through the city, and New York friendships sputter to an end. Here is a novel where the only moral is that thwarted passion is the truest passion, where love is a hallucination and the gravest illness is desire.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eGARY INDIANA\u003c\/strong\u003e (1950-2024) was a novelist and critic who has chronicled the despair and hysteria of America in the late twentieth century. From \u003ci\u003eHorse Crazy\u003c\/i\u003e (1989), a tale of feverish love set against the backdrop of downtown New York amid the AIDS epidemic, to \u003ci\u003eDo Everything in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e (2003), \"a desolate frieze of New York's aging bohemians\" (\u003ci\u003en+1\u003c\/i\u003e), Indiana's novels mix horror and bathos, grim social commentary with passages of tenderest, frailest desire. With 1997's \u003ci\u003eResentment: A Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e, Indiana began his true crime trilogy, following up with \u003ci\u003eThree Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story\u003c\/i\u003e (1999) and \u003ci\u003eDepraved Indifference\u003c\/i\u003e (2002). Together, the three novels show the most vicious crimes in our nation's history to be only American pathologies personified. In 2015, Indiana published his acclaimed anti-memoir, \u003ci\u003eI Can Give You Anything But Love \u003c\/i\u003eand later the novel \u003cem\u003eGone Tomorrow\u003c\/em\u003e. Called one of \"the most brilliant critics writing in America today\" by the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \"the punk poet and pillar of lower-Manhattan society\" by Jamaica Kincaid, and \"one of the most important chroniclers of the modern psyche\" by the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, Gary Indiana remains both inimitable and impossible to pin down.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Womb House Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53256738439477,"sku":null,"price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/6247\/9413\/files\/horsecrazy.jpg?v=1786060326","url":"https:\/\/wombhousebooks.com\/products\/horse-crazy-by-gary-indiana","provider":"Womb House Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}