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Availability:In StockContributor:Beth NugentPublish date:1997-12-08Pages:208
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780679744245ISBN-10:067974424XUPC:9780679744245Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:LiterarySize:8.77 x 5.95 x 1.34 inchesWeight:0.5401Product ID:SC86WSG46W
Following her critically acclaimed collection of short stories, City of Boys, Beth Nugent brings her dark and eerie vision to a powerful first novel.

Live Girls is the story of Catherine, in her twenties, who sells tickets in a run-down porn theater in a decrepit port city, A sign in the window of the seedy hotel where she lives reads Transients Welcome. Her only friend is Jerome, an anorexic drag queen who searches for love among the sailors.

As Catherine and Jerome set out for Hollywood, we witness -with equal horror and fascination -- their desperate attempt to find redemption in a world that offers them so little.

In haunting, stylized prose, Nugent takes us deep into her protagonist's psyche while painting a bizarre -- yet oddly familiar -- picture of a dissociated, disconnected America. Live Girls is a tour de force that will leave no one who reads it unshaken.
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780679744245ISBN-10:067974424XUPC:9780679744245Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:LiterarySize:8.77 x 5.95 x 1.34 inchesWeight:0.5401Product ID:SC86WSG46W
Beth Nugent received an MFA from the University of Iowa. She teaches at the University of Denver. Her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and Grand Street.
Publisher: Vintage

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