Martin and John Author:Dale Peck In luminous prose and with a frankness about sexuality rarely seen in contemporary fiction, Dale Peck has written a haunting, daring, and heartrending debut novel that speaks of gay life in the nineties. — Dale Peck weaves together two sets of stories to create a haunting, heartrending portrait of an artist in our time. The first is told episodic... more »ally by John, a hustler in New York, who falls in love with Martin, a man dying of AIDS. Interwoven with these stories is a second set, in which characters named Martin and John appear, but living different lives.« less