Perv (e-book) (used book) | Jerry Stahl | bookbook.eu

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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 desire and angst struggling to stay sane in a world gone Day-Glo.

As 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 electroshock aficionado, whose condo he flees to track down Michelle, the gorgeously damaged, lapsed Hare Krishna-ette he's adored since kindergarten.

Like 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 Charle Manson. From here the trip gets vicious...

Already an underground classic, Perv-a Love Story is a relentlessly twisted, sexy, and savagely funny literary excursion, a novel of doomed youth in the era when Flower Power had begun to wilt.