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A euphoric, provocative book about friendship, intimacy, artwork, clubbing, and ambition set in 1980s and '90s NEW YORK, from the author of I Hate the Internet. When Adeline, a prosperous art scholar, chances upon a man from the Midwest known only as Baby in a shady East Town squat, the two commence a fiery a friendly relationship that propels them through a decade of New York life. Inside the apartments and pubs of downtown Manhattan to the infamous nightclub The Limelight, Adeline is Baby's guardian angel, adding him to a city not yet overrun by gentrification. They live through a time of New York punctuated by the fatalities of Warhol, Basquiat, Wojnarowicz, and Tompkins Square Area. Adeline is fiercely defensive of Baby, even getting him home with her to Los Angeles, but he soon gets control his own education. Once only a kid off the bus from Wisconsin, Baby relishes ketamine-fueled clubbing evenings and acid days in LA, and he falls deep in to the Club Child twilight zone of sexual surplus. As Adeline evolves into the designer she never really expected to become and flees to the nascent technology scene in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, Baby faces his own desire for artistic appearance and reputation. He must write his way to avoid it of clubbing life, and their a friendly relationship, an alliance that looked like nearly impenetrable, is examined and betrayed, going out of each unmoored as the world around them seems to be unraveling. Riotously funny and sensible, The Future Won't Be Long is an ecstatic, propulsive book coursing with a unusual vitality, an elegy to New York and also to the relationships that have the power to change - and save - our lives.
