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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. ...
