Guide Ashley Herring Blake spent his entire life trying

spent his entire life trying to hide behind a mask

on the way both class and sexual identities are formed

From British high society to the South of France

the truth and fiction

and graduate school is expensive

Guide Ashley Herring Blake spent his entire life tryingChris is a young porn star who wants to experience death at someone else's hand; Mason has lurid fantasies about members of British pop bands; Sniffles is a teenage runaway whose need for love outweighs his attachment to life. Courtesy of a frankly manipulative author narrator named Dennis, these characters and more move through a subterranean Los Angeles where hallucination and reality, sex and suicide, love and indifference run together in