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The ’90s New York Queer Classic
‘Establishes Benderson as the most important literary chronicler of New York’s lumpen proletariat – in all its polymorphous perversity – since William Burroughs, John Rechyand Hubert Selby Jr’ Newsday
‘User is unmistakably brilliant’
Los Angeles Times
‘Ventures to the darkest corners of its neon-lit milieu’ Irish Times
‘Benderson’s noxious, Baudelairean pen revives bohemia for one last time, in all its destitution and strangeness’ Claude Arnaud, Le Point
Published in the UK for the first time. A New York City hustler with a special gift for reeling in customers, Apollo, ‘a pale skinned mulatto with a mournful mouth’ strips at a gay sex theatre in Times Square. He is one of the most seductive and disturbing creations in recent American fiction. Unflinchingly describing the lives of hustlers, pimps, drug-addicts and transsexuals in 1990s Times Square, User speaks with the authentic voice of characters from the edge. This is a world filled with stark, hypnotic eroticism and mined with terrors peculiar to the subterranean city in the hours after midnight. A Queer Classic published in the UK and Australia for the first time. By the bestselling author of The Romanian, winner of the Prix de Flore.
