Overview
Adored by the likes of Amy Sedaris, Madonna (who optioned the film rights), and Gordon Lish,Ā Love Junkie is Robert Plunketās cult novel of the heady heyday of gay New York at the dawn of the AIDS epidemic: scandalously long out of print, it is now gloriously reissued for a new generation of readers.
Mimi Smithers, a modern-day Emma Bovary, is a fortyish suburban housewife who has an eye for dĆ©cor and dreams of hosting lavish cocktail parties. Reflecting on her time in Tehran with her Union Carbide executive husband, she says, āIn the waning months of the Shahās regime, entertaining became more and more difficult. Hamsāalways a problem in Islamic countriesāwere as rare as henās teeth.ā After their move to Westchester, a party she hosts for Mrs. Rockefeller goes south, and she falls into a deep funk. But then life takes an unexpected turn when she stumbles down into the gay rabbit hole of Manhattan and Fire Island society and meets Joel, a porn star with a chest āas smooth as a Ken doll.ā Soon sheās helping him with his lucrative mail order business (signed photographs, used underwear, āverbal abuse audiotapesā), and her real dreams and adventures begin.
This book title, Love Junkie, ISBN: 9780811238472, by Robert Plunket, published by New Directions (May 14, 2024) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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