Gay & Lesbian Fiction, Historical Fiction

Heyday

Name: Heyday
Author: Michael Butler
ISBN: 9780977776436

by Michael Butler

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Overview

BOOTLEG LOVE. The Jazz Age. Mack Daly is a charming wheeler-dealer. Joe Imperio is a street-smart hustler. They meet against the glamorous backdrop of Manhattan in the era of Prohibition, where there are speakeasies on every corner and danger lurking at every turn. When Mack s marriage of convenience to the beautiful Ynez starts to crumble, and with the government hot on the trail of his illegal bootlegging activities, Mack s world explodes in an orgy of decadence, unparalleled greed...and murder. He turns to his friends for help Eliot Armstrong, a shell-shocked World War I veteran, and his lesbian sister, Nolie. Soon Mack and Joe are ensnared in a diabolical scheme that threatens to expose their illicit love and bring ruin to them all. Based on a true story, Heyday takes us inside the little-known gay subculture of the Lost Generation, where a forbidden passion grows into undying love.

About the Author, Michael Butler

Michael Viktor Butler hails from upstate New York, where he was raised by six women his mother, grandmother and a multitude of aunts. Thus, he found himself surrounded by former bootleggers, ex-vaudevillians and failed poetesses who provided him with endless amounts of inspiration. Michael has worked as an entertainment agent, college professor and film and stage director and has a Ph.D. in the field of art and design.

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From The Critics

The most exciting book about New York in the 1920s to be written in years! Not simply a novel about the swanky, secret underside of old Broadway, but real literature—heart stopping and soul stirring above the rest!
—The New York Times Book Review