Skels

the long version

"When Orlie Breton shows up in June of 1979 to work as a paramedic in New York City, she finds herself plunged into a violent and magical world, one in which her boyfriend embarks on a long LSD trip as he builds a holographic billboard atop Times Square and her roommate stars alongside a drag-queen in the CBGB's, Maxwell's Kansas City scene. On a call in an underground encampment one night, she meets an albino man, a street poet/musician, and witnesses his encounter with a brutal and psychotic cop. He, the albino, and Orlie encounter each other again and again until one night the albino leads the cop on a chase that ends in tragedy; the cop falls down an abandoned airshaft, and only Orlie performing an illegal medical procedure saves his life. He awakens bent on vengeance, and the albino becomes a wanted man, whom Orlie now has to smuggle out of New York."--BOOK JACKET.