Perv--a Love Story
  • Published:
    Oct-1999 (Hardcover)
    Jan-2001 (Paperback)
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Time Period:
    1960's-1970's 20th Century
  • Pages:
    352
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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.
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    •  
    • Jan-2001
    • HarperPerennial
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0688177875
    • ISBN13: 9780688177874
    • First Edition
    • Oct-1999
    • William Morrow
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0688170943
    • ISBN13: 9780688170943
    •  
    • Sep-2009
    • HarperCollins
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Oct-2009
    • Harper
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0061956759
    • ISBN13: 9780061956751



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