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Raw: A Love Story
Paperback
Publisher Price: $19.00
ISBN13: 9780802122018
Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat
Published: Dec 3 2013
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
An audacious satire of high culture, low standards, reality TV, and instant fame by the author of Moist (Vanity Fair).
Sweet natured and as dumb as a bag of hammers, Sepp Gregory parlayed his six-pack abs and broken heart into overnight success on the insanely popular reality-based television show Sex Crib. Now, People magazine's sexiest man alive is touring the country with his bestselling debut novel, a barely fictionalized memoir he neither wrote nor read. He's signing books shirtless, so no one cares--except for struggling novelist and bastion of intellectualism, Harriet Post.
One of the blogosphere's stuffiest literary minds, Harriet believes Sepp is the very definition of the apocalypse. Determined to pen an exposé on the publishing industry, Harriet hijacks the book tour and uncovers the ghostwriter. But when her self-righteous campaign ends in a tragic accident, reality collides with reality and Sepp and Harriet take it on the lam. Hightailing it on a sex-fueled road trip through the Southwest, Harriet is finally in step with contemporary culture.
Coming across as the slightly more well-adjusted offspring of Hunter S. Thompson and James Ellroy, Mark Haskell Smith is at his raucous best in this incisive, caustic . . . hilarious and . . . unexpectedly sweet illustration of why we write and read in the first place (Los Angeles Times).
Subversively funny . . . Think Don DeLillo meets Jersey Shore. --The Wrap
Both hilarious and absurd. You'll laugh (and sometimes blush) the whole way through. --People
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