DANNY VINIK: BLUE PAIGE

Blue Paige is the sordid tale of two half-brothers, a black republican cartographer in New Mexico and a white gay junkie nightclub doorman in Los Angeles, whose lives become inextricably linked by a cruel twist of fate. Joe, the map maker, finds Barry - whose life as a junkie has hit bottom - a job driving a van across the vast desolation of the West. With sophisticated computer mapping techniques at his fingertips, Barry stumbles across a place not on any map- a ranch cum satellite internet video sex operation-being run by a shady character known only as The Man from the West. When Joe is mysteriously murdered, Barry is forced to delve into the secrets of a man he never knew, his own brother.

Friends of Paige:

"The perfect book for our time - or just beyond it; Danny Vinik hovers on the edge striking at all propriety and private thought to reveal the inevitable lurid imaginings of late capitalism."
-Justin Hall

"Sex, death, and accurate history... what fun I had with Blue Paige!"
-Leslie Marmon Silko

"Any book which features a fag character who frequently fucks females and jerks off with his half-black brother has my whole-hearted endorsement."
-Bruce LaBruce

"Danny Vinik is the second best built fiction writer in America!"
-Courtney Taylor

"Exhilarating and weirdly satisfying..."
-Joy Williams

"It's hard to say anything coherent after a first reading obviously... the visceral punch is so strong that I basically have to get oriented again and go back and read BP again in a few weeks."
-Larry Gaudet