Love Junkie

Mimi Smithers, forty-something housewife and aesthete manquee, has moved with her Union Carbide husband from Tehran to Westchester. Life takes an unexpected turn when she meets Joel, a dazzlingly handsome porn star. Soon she tumbles down the rabbit hole of Manhattan and Fire Island society, helping glamorous Joel with his lucrative mail order business (signed photographs, used underwear, ''verbal abuse audiotapes''), and her real dreams and adventures begin. A Madame Bovary for the heyday of gay New York, Love Junkie, first published in 1992, is reissued here in its full and naked glory.>

About the author

Robert Plunket was born in Greenville, Texas, in 1945, but raised in Havana and Mexico City. After college he moved to New York and became Mr Chatterbox, the gossip columnist for Sarasota Magazine. He has published two novels, My Search for Warren Harding (1983) and Love Junkie (1992). He is retired and lives in a trailer park in Englewood, Florida, where he enjoys collecting old quilts and raising succulents from scratch.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Plunket, Plunket Robert
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 05.03.2026
• EAN: 9780241795095
• ISBN: 978-0-241-79509-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Satire, Satirical fiction and parodies, Relating to gay people, FICTION / LGBTQ+ / General, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary, Satirical style / satire, New York (state)