{"product_id":"2940015440430","title":"Before the Plague","description":"The euphoria of the 70's sexual revolution has not yet waned. New York is teeming with men reveling in the bars and after-hours clubs of Greenwich Village and Chelsea. Jerry goes downtown to search for his lost love, Richard. He meets a stranger, Dante, who takes him to the after-hours club – Hell – where, at the hands of the Grey-Haired Man and the Sexless-one, Jerry witnesses the most bizarre and cruel fantasies before Dante takes him back uptown, to the upper east side, across the until now unseen border into Paradise. He is introduced to Mary who takes him to a dinner party at the triple-terraced penthouse of theatrical agent Leo Renril, who believes he is Margo Channing from the movie All About Eve. There, he meets the other selves of the people he met in Hell, as well as William F. Sneer, the icon of the political far right. While playing the party game Inquisition, Sneer and His Eminence, the religious power that is, reveal their plan to arrest and tattoo all who frequent gathering places catering to behavior they say is responsible for a rapidly spreading disease of which Richard is a carrier. When convinced \"the plan\" is not part of the party game, the dinner guests choose sides – for or against Sneer's plan – and rush downtown to help either facilitate or prevent its realization. Jerry joins those opposed hoping to find Richard before Sneer and the eminence's plan is realized. What happens next is the beginning of what united the gay community as never before.","brand":"DRA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47173035458800,"sku":"2940015440430","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940015440430_p0.jpg?v=1763620470","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015440430","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}