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Cinematic shot of an older man holding a stack of papers on a wet street in 1960s New York.

Cinematic shot of an older man holding a stack of papers on a wet street in 1960s New York.

Seventh Avenue South A Novel by David Allard Based on the One Act Play “Seventh Avenue South” by David Allard For more than forty years, Samuel Patterson has refused to tell the truth. Once a rising star in New York politics, Samuel abandoned a historic campaign for mayor in 1973 and disappeared from public life without explanation. He reinvented himself as a bestselling novelist, protected the people he loved, and allowed the city to believe whatever it wanted about him. But in 2015, on the day marriage equality becomes the law of the land, Samuel learns that his former campaign manager is publishing a tell-all—one that threatens to rewrite their shared history and expose the secret Samuel has guarded for decades. Determined not to let someone else have the final word, Samuel agrees to his first interview since leaving politics. His story begins in Greenwich Village in 1968, where he falls in love with Carlos Romero and finds a family among a fiercely loyal group of friends. Together, they navigate political ambition, Stonewall, the AIDS crisis, profound loss, and a city that transforms alongside them. By turns funny, romantic, and heartbreaking, Seventh Avenue South is a sweeping story of love and friendship—and of one man’s long journey out of silence and into the light. Ver mais