BLOW BY BLOW.(Review) (book review)

Danny Moynihan, Boogie-Woogie. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. 256 pages, $22.95. This book is a one- or two-gulp read, and there are in fact a couple of blow jobs in it, though its best sex scenes, including the opening sequence, are lesbian. It's about the New York art world of the '90s--about seizing opportunities by the throat in other words.

The author, described in the jacket copy as a dealer and curator on both sides of the Atlantic, is also the son of Rodrigo Moynihan, the British painter, so it is doubly safe to say that he comes naturally, as well as preparedly, to the ...

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