Get Off: The Sordid Youth and Unlikely Survival of a Queer Junkie Wonder Boy

Set against a backdrop of New York City in the grungy, glittering 1980s, "Get Off" is a memoir about desperate living, hidden promise, double lives, and the danger of getting too much too soon. This eloquent, entertaining, sometimes absurdly hilarious book is a tale of how an anxious theater nerd from Long Island created and ultimately emerged from a hell of his own making. Written as a testament for his young son, Scott Alderman's account of his wasted youth and hard-earned manhood will re...