A love story set in the age of aids, Horse Crazy tells of a successful 35-year-Old Writer's obsession with a beautiful, young would-be artist and former junkie. Caught in an emotional trap of his own devising, and with h...A love story set in the age of aids, Horse Crazy tells of a successful 35-year-Old Writer's obsession with a beautiful, young would-be artist and former junkie. Caught in an emotional trap of his own devising, and with his ex-lover lying in a hospital dying of aids, the Writer is forced to confront his own mortality in this brilliant novel of erotic obsession in the gay subculture of New York's east village.