Showmances and Stage Kisses by Bowden Walker
The first title in the Heights High series, Bowden Walker’s Showmances and Stage Kisses is a highly entertaining and nostalgia-rich work of young adult fiction exploring the sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll-fueled world of 1980s New York City.
Seventeen-year-old Sebastian Weiss is a certified genius who started attending Columbia as a child, but he’s feeling restless and unhappy with his life. He’s destined to matriculate at an elite university, but he’d rather spend time with his best friend Nicholas Howell – the young star of “Heights High,” a soap opera about a Brooklyn Heights school. Sebastian’s life is the […]
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