Strip/Joint - Couverture souple

Onstot, George

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1928076106 ISBN 13 : 9781928076100

Editeur : The Good Word, 2016

Synopsis

George Onstot's latest novel is set in the sordid world of adult entertainment. It is the early 1980s, in the earliest days of a nightmare called AIDS. Brothers Lloyd and Jake Bacon are sex-industry legends, best known for producing adult films (Bluer Than Blue) and owning the infamous (and obscenely lucrative) sex emporium the Playpen. They occupy a seminal place in the thriving San Francisco sexual subculture. The Playpen's showrooms have themes, unsimulated lesbian love acts and striptease shows that often are less bump-and-grind fare than avant-garde performance art. In their offices upstairs, Lloyd and Jake host endless wild parties that attract a curious cross-section of their city's populace.One of the nobodies who enters the Bacons' world is teenager Jo Jo Scott. She ends up in the brothers' lobby because she feels she has nowhere else to go. After enduring two operations to fix her spinal deformity, Jo Jo finally sheds her Fiberglas back brace and confides to a friend, "I can't do anything. My upper body is covered with surgical incisions. I'm unemployable." "Have you thought of becoming a stripper?" her friend replies. "Your face is pretty. Your breasts are pert and perky. They won't care about your incisions. It'll be the easiest money ever."Jo Jo wins the Playpen's Monday-night amateur-strip contest, where she gets $75, a job offer...and the undivided attention of Jake Bacon. For close to a decade, she becomes his lover and confidante. In the privacy of her bedroom, she is a diarist who records myriad facts and opinions about the Bacon brothers and their sordid world. After Lloyd fatally shoots Jake in the early 1990s, the case makes international headlines and inspires movies and books. But only Jo Jo Scott knows and lived the real story, and in Strip/Joint she tells it all with an irreverent sense of humor and a merciless eye for detail.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Good Word
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1928076106
• ISBN 13: 9781928076100
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
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