The Petting Zoo Condition:Good Supplemented by the voices of

Supplemented by the voices of several introverts

and overly daring

CHRIS RYAN was born near Newcastle in 1961

and the charismatic Boyd-Carrington

You'll learn how they dared to be different—whether it's a new way to market computers or make yogurt

The Petting Zoo Condition:Good Supplemented by the voices ofA moving, vividly rendered novel from the author of The Basketball Diaries Suffused with Jim Carroll's humor and sharp wit, his delicate yet hallucinatory imagery, and his cool, sophisticated, streetsmart voice, The Petting Zoo is a frank, haunting examination of one artist's personal and spiritual quest. Billy Wolfram, an enigmatic thirty eight year old star of the late 1980s New York art scene, views a show of Velzquez paintings and is so humbled by