Graphically sexual and one of the best-selling gay novels of all time, is the story of Fred Lemish, who at thirty-nine has built up his body into a fatless state of being in Great Shape. Finally he is ready to find Mr. Right. But from the Everhard Baths, to the Pines on Fire Island, to that place of myth and legend, The Meat Rack, Lemish is looking for his dream lover in all the wrong places. is a fierce satire of the gay ghetto and a touching story of one man’s desperate search for permanence, commitment, and love.