| Everyone's Pretty Contributor(s): Millet, Lydia (Author) |
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ISBN: 1932360778 ISBN-13: 9781932360776 Publisher: Soft Skull OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2005 Annotation: Written by the acclaimed author of My Happy Life and George Bush, Dark Prince of Love, Everyone's Pretty is a savagely funny novel about the search for God, sex, and significance. When he's not drinking himself into a stupor, stealing credit cards to pay for sex, or plotting his fame with a horny midget, Los Angeles pornographer Dean Decetes entertains messianic delusions and freeloads wantonly from his spinster sister. Distancing herself from her deadbeat sibling, Bucella obsesses over the quasi-religious love notes she writes to her boss and reassures a coterie of codependent coworkers, including a hygiene-phobic Christian Scientist and a depressive blonde bombshell named Alice. Next door, a teenage math genius has endured humiliation at the hands of her mother and is running away from home. She hightails it to a local dive and hooks up with Dean's editor from the porno magazine. Told from five hilariously bizarre points of view, this novel serves up a fabulously florid cast of characters, many inspired by author Lydia Millet's two-year stint working at Larry Flynt Publications. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | Humorous - Black Humor |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2004028402 |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 5.02" W x 8.04" (0.58 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A funny novel about a sex-obsessed pornographer, a hygienic Christian Scientist, a melancholic blond beauty, and a teenage math wiz wends its way through the streets of modern L.A. in search of answers to the big questions. Original. |