Running A Novel

<B>From the critically acclaimed author of <i>Be Safe I Love You </i>comes a haunting novel of love, friendship, and survival set in the red light district of Athens in the 1980s that <i>New York</i> magazine calls ';a gauzy portrait of youthful longing, sticky romance, and regret.'</B><BR><BR><i>Running</i> follows the lives of three friends and lovers: queer English poet Milo Rollack, prep school dropout Jasper Lethe, and seventeen-year-old Bridey Sullivan, an American with a fascination for fire. Barely out of childhood, squatting in a crumbling hotel on the outskirts of Athens in the late 1980s, the three slip in and out of homelessness, heavy drinking, and underground jobs. While working as runners for the hotelconvincing tourists to stay there for a commission and free boardthey are befriended by an IRA fugitive and become inextricably linked to an act of terrorism that will mark each of them for life.<BR><BR>Bridey, the consummate survivor, abandons Jasper and Milo, planning to