Nicholas, the hero-narrator of The Adept, begins his story with an assault on the reader in the form of a paraphrase of Charles Baudelaire. Nicholas is “a healthy full-grown adult male animal with air down past his shoulders and a fine set of muscles.” He spends his days in meditation, turned on by drugs and sex. Nicholas supports himself pushing cocaine. The scene moves back and forth from Greenwich Village to a jet flight to the Arizona desert in [...read more...]

Captain Nowhere is a man of genius and heroic components. He is also a sexual fetishist, a religious visionary and a dope freak. Captain Nowhere goes through sexual changes as rapidly as he runs through life. Propelled by drugs, sex and the fantastic pulse of his own existence, he explores the possibilities of America, until he has eliminated all but one… [Bantam Books description, 1970]

The Mad Cub, first published in 1970, is a sexual coming-of-age tale, illustrating how [...read more...]