Chicken : Love for Sale on the Streets of Hollywood - Softcover

David Henry Sterry

3.66

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9781841953946: Chicken : Love for Sale on the Streets of Hollywood

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841953946 ISBN 13: 9781841953946

Publisher: Canongate Books, 2003

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Emerging from an almost normal suburban family of British emigres, before descending into the life of a teenage prostitute in Hollywood, this is David Sterry's unforgettable chronicle of a season spent walking the razor-sharp edge between painful innocence and the allure of the abyss. Arriving in town to attend college, but desperate for money, Sterry was introduced to a pimp who established him as a male prostitute serving wealthy older women (and occasionally men). Juxtaposed against bitter anecdotes from Sterry's disintegrating family life is an unflinching and fascinating account of the Neverland of post-Sixties sexual excess. The frank descriptions of his 'dates' range from wickedly funny to baroque to deeply disturbing.

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About the Author:

DAVID HENRY STERRY has worked as an actor, a marriage counselor, a screenwriter, a comedian, and an athlete. He lives in San Rafael, California. A one-man show based on Chicken will be showcased in San Francisco, with plans for its European debut at the 2003 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

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Even as confessional memoirs go, David Sterry's Chicken stands out from the rest. Alternately farcical, grotesque, brutal and sad. * * The Bookseller * * Sordid, painful and often hilarious. * * Guardian * * Sterry writes with comic brio . . . he's honed a vibrant outrageous writing style and turned out this studiously wild souvenir of a chequered past. * * New York Times * * Unflinching and perceptive without being mawkish, and often very funny. * * Independent on Sunday * *

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