The Last Generation of Chainsmokers

Please visit the website of The Last Generation of Chainsmokers by
Stephen Creagh Uys, published February 2004

http://www.stephencreaghuys.com

"The Last Generation of Chainsmokers is a dark and dazzling novel
about doomed love in New York's Lower East Side in the 1990s. When
Crane King and Kimberly Anderson first meet in The Village Idiot, it
is the middle of the day and both are drunk. The story of their
besotted passion in a downward-spiraling world is at once tender—the
exquisite pain of mad love—and menacing in its descent toward
impending catastrophe.

Stephen Creagh Uys draws on shifting, often fragmentary points of view
to tell the aching love story of a couple perfectly suited to each
other, but not the world. They are Scott and Zelda caught in the
crosshairs of Big Daddy-O Apple, a haywire existence with devastating
consequences for all around them.

Uys populates his debut novel with gritty characters from the streets
of New York, pimps, sharks, dope-heads, demons and dreamers — people
we all see but are afraid to look at. The Last Generation of
Chainsmokers heralds an exciting new writer whose prose pulsates with
life and vigor and cuts to the core of the human condition"

Published Feb 2004, iUniverse, Hardcover(0-595-75836-3) Pbk
(0-595-30994-1)