Scary Kisses - Hardcover

Gooch, Brad

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399134107 ISBN 13: 9780399134104

Publisher: Putnam Adult, 1988

Synopsis

Offers a voyeuristic, provocative look inside the world of male modeling, documenting the decadent, seductive nightlife of 1980s New York, Paris, and Milan and the fast-track lifestyle of drug abuse, sexual perversity, and cynicism

About this title

About the Author:

Brad Gooch is the author of the acclaimed biography of Frank O'Hara, City Poet, as well as Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography, along with other nonfiction and three novels. The recipient of National Endowment for the Humanities and Guggenheim fellowships, he earned his Ph.D. at Columbia University and is Professor of English at William Paterson University in New Jersey. He lives in New York City.

From Publishers Weekly:

Fashion models may go to plastic surgeons, but it would take a heart surgeon to breathe some life into the narcissistic, yuppie mannequins who stumble zombie-like through this semi-pornographic romp. The prose style might be called mod-minimalist, and the trite dialogue is typeset like a film script (a hint to Hollywood?), which doesn't help matters at all. The plot could be loosely summarized as boy loses girl, boy (very briefly) gets boy, boy wins back girl from the second boy. The action hops from New York's East and West Villages to Paris and Milan, then returns to the Big Apple where Sister Ruth Theresa's psychotherapy sessions help Lucy fall back into the arms of handsome young Todd, thus saving him from a lonely, glitzy lifestyle. Short-story writer Gooch ( Jailbait ) has been a fashion model himself, yet he lacks the least bit of critical distance or humor to animate this self-styled scoop on the fast-track world of male modeling with its drugs, sex and glitter. 50,000 first printing; $50,000 ad/promo.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Adult
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0399134107
• ISBN 13: 9780399134104
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 270