San Francisco: Persona Press. (1982.). First edition - A novel about a young man's coming to terms with his sexuality in 1958 San Francisco. An interesting picture of the late beat scene with some of the poets and writers appearing under their own names (Ginsberg at the Fughazi reading, David Meltzer who was critical of the protagonist's poem at a reading) and others under thinly disguised names - Gary Ryder, etc. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-931906-032.