The Gentle Degenerates - Softcover
Marco Vassi was possibly the greatest erotic writer of his generation. His first publisher at Olympia Press, Maurice Girodias, compares his talent for prose to Henry Miller's writing. His sexual explorations and literary talent are the foundations of nine novels written between 1970 and 1976. Although his life was cut short, his memory lives on with the release of The Vassi Collection. The collection includes nine fiction titles and his autobiographical memoir, THE STONED APOCALYPSE, which follows his sexual liberation while on a trip he took in the sixties. Join Vassi in his exploration of the human sexual and spiritual experience. In THE GENTLE DEGENERATES, a young man let loose in the human potential movement travels from one end of the country to the other, opening himself to all the possible variations of sexual experience and trying to find love in the midst of explosive and unlimited sensuality.
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Marco Vassi was, without a doubt, the foremost erotic writer of our generation. Praised by Norman Mailer, Kate Millett, Saul Bellow, and Gore Vidal, he was not only the ultimate sexual explorer, but a literary craftsman whose own life experiences became the stuff of his fiction—expanded, of course, by a grand imagination and a full sense of the absurd.
Tragically, Vassi died from pneumonia after he had contracted AIDS.
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Tragically, Vassi died from pneumonia after he had contracted AIDS.
Marco Vassi aficionados as well as the uninitiated will be glad to hear that ten of Vassi's books, all long out of print and generally unavailable, have been republished. Vassi's life and his writing were so intimately connected that it often was hard to tell which was at the service of the other. His novels stand as vivid documentation of the crazy wisdom and the exhilarated sexual explorations that occurred during what we sometimes honor but more often dismiss these days as 'the sexual revolution'. -- David Steinberg, LIBIDO
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- PublisherNexus
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0352324287
- ISBN 13 9780352324283
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages240
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