The Rope Above, the Bed Below

When The Rope Above, the Bed Below first appeared in 1994, Jason Furys memoirs of a wild, sexually free Manhattan of 1980 before the AIDS epidemic became an overnight bestsellerfirst in America, and then around the world. Although beset with censorship problems, critics and fans quickly hailed the novel for its feverish writing, its breathless plot of a mad killer stalking New Yorks male strippers, and its hypnotic remembrance of a sex-filled world now vanished. Furys memoir is recognized today as a parable of the Plague Years that soon swept the world.