Toss and Whirl and Pass"A brilliantly realized nightmare." Antonio Calvo, Princeton University From highly acclaimed author Shawn Stewart Ruff comes a fearless new novel set in New York City two weeks into the nightmare of the World Trade Center’s destruction. For Ivy-educated HIV+ African-American poet Yale Battle, the present and future seem overshadowed by his brief, brilliant life with Courtney Baines Arrington, famed Alvin Ailey dancer and choreographer dead by AIDS in the early 1990s. Indeed, life hasn’t been worth living without Courtney, until it is suddenly hanging in the balance, in the aftermath of the World Trade Center’s destruction. Wandering the memories of Yale's old life, and deep in the terror of a drug and sex odyssey that lands him in jail, Toss and Whirl and Pass ponders the nature of eternal love and celebrates the city of dreams. ISBN-10: 0981942008 ISBN-13: 978-0981942001 Pub Date: October 13, 2010
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