Hardcover, 256 pages
English language
Published by HarperEntertainment.
5 stars
(1 review)
"Here is a story like no other: The unforgettable chronicle of a season spent walking the razor-sharp line between painful innocence and the allure of the abyss. David Sterry was a wide-eyed son of 1970s suburbia, but within his first week looking for off-campus housing on Sunset Boulevard he was lured into a much darker world - servicing the lonely women of Hollywood by night.".
"Chicken - the word is slang for a young male prostitute - revisits this year of living dangerously, in a narrative of dazzling inventiveness and searing candor. Shifting back and forth from tales of Sterry's youth - spent in the awkward bosom of a "normal" but disintegrating family - to his fascinating account of the Neverland of post-sixties sexual excess, Chicken teems with Fellini-esque characters and set pieces worthy of Dionysus.
And when the life finally overwhelms Sterry, his retreat from the profession will leave …
"Here is a story like no other: The unforgettable chronicle of a season spent walking the razor-sharp line between painful innocence and the allure of the abyss. David Sterry was a wide-eyed son of 1970s suburbia, but within his first week looking for off-campus housing on Sunset Boulevard he was lured into a much darker world - servicing the lonely women of Hollywood by night.".
"Chicken - the word is slang for a young male prostitute - revisits this year of living dangerously, in a narrative of dazzling inventiveness and searing candor. Shifting back and forth from tales of Sterry's youth - spent in the awkward bosom of a "normal" but disintegrating family - to his fascinating account of the Neverland of post-sixties sexual excess, Chicken teems with Fellini-esque characters and set pieces worthy of Dionysus.
And when the life finally overwhelms Sterry, his retreat from the profession will leave an indelible mark on readers' minds and hearts."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
- Male prostitution
- Sterry, David
- Los Angeles
- Biography/Autobiography
- Biography & Autobiography
- Biography / Autobiography
- Specific Groups - General
- Sexuality
- Male prostitutes
- Biography & Autobiography / General
- Teenage prostitution
- General
- Biography
- California