The narrator of the book is working on his Ph.D. dissertation, a biography of a closeted homosexual Senator from Wyoming. He attends a special university seminar for men and women doing biography dissertations. Also in the seminar is handsome Nicky Farrell who seems to be seducing a new female student each week. When Nicky asks, Jeremy, the narrator to help him, Jeremy finds that he has become Nicky's latest conquest. Nicky's completely comfortable bi-sexuality is in sharp contrast to the life of Senator Marty Mount about whom Jeremy is writing. Jeremy's biography of the conservative Senator and his hidden life flows easily while he learns about Nicky's joyously random sexual exploits. While Jeremy is helping Nicky finish his academic project, Nicky is helping Jeremy learn about himself. This novel is an attempt to explore the development of three different attitudes to same-sex sexual attraction and the results they produce.
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