Matt Brackett''s fascist outbursts from his o wn radio station against blacks and gays earns him some poet ic justice when he employs Wiley Jones, a 20 year old with a penchant for redressing the political balance in the "Unite d States" of AIDS. '
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Young writers' coming-of-age stories are a literary perennial. Boggan gives us Willie Jones, who renames himself Wiley as he drops out of college after recovering from an accident that broke his back and put him in the hospital for a year. He is fleeing the pressures of living up to his Pulitzer Prize^-winning journalist father's reputation and to the expectation that he go to J-school, not major in English and write a novel. Through old school ties, Wiley finds an editorial job with an Atlanta-based AIDS magazine distributed to ad-buying drug companies and similar businesses that profit from the epidemic. Wiley figures it's just a living to support writing but quickly learns that staffers are at best embarrassed by the magazine and its ultraright, homophobic, racist publisher and at worst desperate to leave. When Wiley hooks up with an attractive redheaded hacker to topple the publisher and his evil communications empire, we cheer him on--and anticipate another communications conglomerate making Safe Sex the movie of the week. Whitney Scott
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This is a terrific book written by a very talented writer in Atlanta. Don't be put off by the title. This is a great story with a lot of wit, irony, and pathos.I recommend you grab this!
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