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Floridian Nights

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"A rich, character-driven foray into a harrowing time.
… it feels like a brilliant stage play, as the verbal sparring smartly highlights queer culture and generational differences."
- Kirkus Reviews

Lance Ringel's latest novel, Floridian Nights, unfolds against a background that at times, surprisingly, can feel as distant as the World War I France of his award-winning debut novel, Flower of Iowa.

August, 1988 - the hottest summer in more than a century in New York, a city shadowed by the AIDS epidemic. Gary Gaines is 35 years old and three years past losing, in the most sudden, terrible way, the love of his life, Becker Barnes. And then again, he is not past it at all. One night Gary meets, in most unlikely circumstances, Rick Fennell, a 22-year-old waiter freshly moved from the Midwest. Despite the genera- tion gap between them, a relationship slowly begins to develop. But Gary cannot bring himself to take Rick seriously, and his tight circle of family and friends, all of whom adored Becker, share his skepticism.

Abruptly, circumstances cause Gary to decamp from New York to his parents' home in Florida. As the days and nights pass, he is forced to face the consequences of his paralyzing grief, and make decisions about the future.

Lance Ringel's acclaimed novel Flower of Iowa, an epic love story between two soldiers in the First World War, has won multiple book awards across a variety of categories, including romance, LGBTQ, and war/military Viction. His works for the theater include the plays In Love with the Arrow Collar Man, based on the true story of famed illustrator J.C. Leyendecker and his lover

Charles Beach, and Flash/Frozen, also based on true historical events, as well as the musical collabo- rations Animal Story and At Home in the World.

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