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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 angst and hormones struggling to stay sane in a world gone Day-Glo."--BOOK JACKET.
"As the novel opens, Bobby loses his virginity in a drug-addled tryst with a one-armed barber's daughter. His best friend rats him out, and Bobby gets kicked out of school and sent home to live with his mom, a sozzled electroshock aficionado who can't get over the insult of Bobby's father's suicide-by-streetcar.
After myriad depraved encounters with his mother's "dates," including a lip-licking scoutmaster and terminally drunk public defender, Bobby flees the horrors of condo-land in search of the girl of his dreams, a lapsed Hare Krishna-ette named Michelle over whom he's obsessed since kindergarten. Young Michelle joined the cult to get away from her groping stepdaddy, only to find more bad karma with a sexed up swami."--BOOK JACKET.
"In the spirit of the times, the couple decides to hitchhike to San Francisco. Before they make mile one, they're picked up by a pair of Bad Hippies - Meat and Varnish - smacked-out spiritual cousins to Charles Manson. From here the trip gets harrowing, as the duo narrowly escape rape and torture, vanquish their assailants, and stagger from Meat's cranked-up Continental forever transformed."--BOOK JACKET.
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Set in 1970--the last, dark days of hippiedom--Perv is the story of Bobby Stark, a 16-year-old batch of angst and hormones who loses his virginity in a drug-addled tryst with a one-armed barber's daughter. Bobby's best friend, Tennie Toad, rats him out, and he is kicked out of prep school and shipped to Pittsburgh to live with his Mom, a sozzled electroshock aficionado who still can't get over the inslut of Bobby's father's suicide-by-streetcar. After myriad weird encounters with his mother's "dates," Bobby flees the horrors of condo-land and hooks up with Michelle, the girl of his dreams, a lapsed Hare-Krishna-ette he's loved since kindergarten. The couple decide, in the spirit of the times, to hitch to San Francisco. But before they make mile one, they're picked up by a pair of Bad Hippies--Meat and Varnish--spiritual cousins to Charlie Manson. From there the adventure gets harrowing, as the duo narrowly escape rape, vanquish their assailants, and stagger from Meat's hell-fueled Lincoln Continental transformed, traumatized, and ready, of all things, to fall in love.
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