| Perv--A Love Story Contributor(s): Stahl, Jerry (Author) |
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ISBN: 0688177875 ISBN-13: 9780688177874 Publisher: William Morrow & Company OUR PRICE: $16.14 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Science Fiction - General - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 5.25" W x 8" (0.73 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Chronological Period - 1970's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Set in 1970, in the last, dark days of hippiedom, Perv -- A Love Story is the saga of Bobby Stark, a sixteen-year-old batch of desire and angst struggling to stay sane in a world gone Day-Glo. As the novel opens, Bobby loses his virginity in a drug-addled tryst with a one-armed barber's daughter. For his sins he's thrown out of school and dispatched to live with his mom, a festive electro shock aficionado, whose condo he flees to track down Michelle, the gorgeously damaged, lasped Hare Krishna-ette he's adored since kindergarten. Like the rest of their generation, the couple hit the road for California, only to be picked up in a hell-fueled Lincoln by a pair of Bad Hippies -- Meat and Varnish -- smacked-out spiritual cousins to Charles Manson. From here the trip gets vicious.... Already an underground classic, Perv-A Love Story is relentlessly twisted, sexy, and savagely funny literary excursion, a novel of doomed youth in the era when Flower Power had begun to wilt. |
Contributor Bio(s): Stahl, Jerry: - Jerry Stahl is the author of the narcotic memoir Permanent Midnight and Perv--a Love Story, both Los Angeles Times bestsellers, as well as the acclaimed novels Pain Killers, Plainclothes Naked, and I, Fatty. He has written extensively for film and television. |