"Alan Helms was the most famous piece of ass of my generation.
We called him 'Scandal Boy' and constructed endless gossip around
him. What Denham Foutus was to Truman Capote and Christopher
Isherwood, Alan Helms was to us. When Casanova was too old to pursue
his amorous career, he became a librarian and wrote his memoir; Alan
became a professor and has written his autobiography, every bit as
riveting as Casanova's."
-Edmund White
"Alan Helms was the young man I wanted to be. This book was like
reading the autobiography of the life I didn't have. I read it with recognition
of the long, painful journey so many of us have towards some kind of
maturity. I salute his courage and celebrate the self-knowledge he has
earned. He has captured perfectly the world of the golden Boyman."
-Terrence McNally
"Usually, the femme (or homme) fatale - from Lolita to Tadzio - is shown
only from the viewpoint of the besotted. Now Alan Helms, in his day an
Obsession for others, most wittily and sharply reports what it is like to
have so many Humberts and Aschenbachs on his case and how smoke from
votive candles can get in your eyes."
-Gore Vidal
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