num_pages: 256
description: Reminiscent of Mary Karr's The Liar's Club, a candid and haunting memoir of the author's journey into a dark world of sex, danger, and allure as a prostitute during the depraved era of 1970s Hollywood alternates between tales of his turbulent childhood and stories of post-Sixties sexual excess.
language: English
title: Chicken: Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent
titlecomplete: Chicken: Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent
genres: Sexuality, Memoir, Queer, American, Biography Memoir, Biography, Sex Work, Nonfiction, LGBT
ratings_count: 373
publisher: HarperEntertainment