{"product_id":"perv-a-love-story-paperback","title":"Perv--A Love Story - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJerry Stahl\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in 1970, in the last, dark days of hippiedom, \u003cem\u003ePerv -- A Love Story\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike 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....\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlready an underground classic, \u003cem\u003ePerv-A Love Story\u003c\/em\u003e is relentlessly twisted, sexy, and savagely funny literary excursion, a novel of doomed youth in the era when Flower Power had begun to wilt. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.88 x 8 x 5.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 09, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42723386818623,"sku":"9780688177874","price":20.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/004a1c157d62dcbab50b65e094bb0f90.webp?v=1765098995","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/perv-a-love-story-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}