James Robert Baker, Author Plume Books $5.95 (323p) ISBN 978-0-452-25815-0
Scott Cochran is a manic all-night deejay in L.A. who will turn down a request for Dusty Springfield's ""The Look of Love'' if it means breaking with an evening's theme of, say, death. Legendary '60s music producer Dennis Contrelle, creator of The...
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James Robert Baker, Author Dutton Books $18.95 (470p) ISBN 978-0-453-00597-5
In his second novel, the author of Fuel-Injected Dreams has produced a frenzied, satirical account of life in the Hollywood fast lane, a kind of Valley of the Dolls of the coke generation. The eponymous protagonist is a B-movie mogul, appropriately...
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James Robert Baker, Author Simon & Schuster $19.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-79184-1
``I'm bored with straight people,'' narrator Tim remarks about midway through this L.A.-based, Two for the Freeway odyssey, by which point readers may have begun to note that homosexuals, at least these homosexuals, aren't exactly a barrel of laughs
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James Robert Baker, Author Penguin Books $9.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-14-023493-0
An over-the-top odyssey in contemporary L.A., saturated with pop cultural references, about two disaffected, eponymous ex-boyfriends. (May)
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James Robert Baker, Author Alyson Books $22.95 (200p) ISBN 978-1-55583-567-5
Controversial gay cult author/filmmaker Baker (Tim & Pete) committed suicide in 1997, but left behind this previously unpublished novel, an amalgam of inner torment, sexual addiction, lost love and angry retribution. Revised, edited and updated for...
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