`A book of resistance and love, as urgently necessary now as it was thirty years ago\' OLIVIA LAINGFirst published in 1990, a blistering novel about a love triangle in New York during the AIDS crisisIt was the beginning of the end of the world but not everyone noticed right away.. `A book of resistance and love, as urgently necessary now as it was thirty years ago\' OLIVIA LAINGFirst published in 1990, a blistering novel about a love triangle in New York during the AIDS crisisIt was the beginning of the end of the world but not everyone noticed right away.