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HORSE CRAZY

Gary Indiana

The first novel from the brilliant, protean Gary Indiana, Horse Crazy 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.

First published by Grove Press, 1989.
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Published by Seven Stories Press

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To Die, in Effect, for Love: [Toby Haslett] (o)n Gary Indiana's Horse Crazy Read more...

[...] In spite of the very specific setting and the sexual preference of the main characters, there are shocks of recognition aplenty here for any reader who has suffered from love or been manipulated by an object of desire. Read more...

[...] Indiana succeeds at re-creating the agonies of unrequited passion and its attendant foolishness and frustration. Read more...

[...] It's been a shock, rereading Horse Crazy. I thought it was good. I had forgotten just how good it is. It was the first part of what has by now become a remarkable body of work, from one of America's greatest writers. -- Keith Ridgeway on rereading HORSE CRAZY (November 2004) Read more...

[...] most important is Indiana's portrayal of a human relationship--a portrait whose sincerity and depth makes it a well-polished gem. Read more...