num_pages: 240
description: 
  girls
 is an erotic spree, a journey into the most forbidden corners of male desire, a story about men who have been rendered numb by their power, who have sacrificed everything for success, who have lost their souls and can find meaning only by living vicariously, obsessively through young women."The concept of young love takes on a sinister connotation in Kelman's novel, in which men who have reached a certain age and a certain level of wealth pursue women half their age—or younger—with a vampiric lust." -- Ben Sisario, New York Times Book Review"I read it in one breathless sitting… Raw as Hubert Selby Jr. or Bukowski and as powerful in its depiction of male midlife crisis as any novel by John Updike, Philip Roth, or Richard Yates, girls is too sick to read on, too compelling not to. a brilliant, voyeuristic portrait of despairing male libido." -- Nick Johnstone, Uncut
language: English
title: girls: A Paean
titlecomplete: girls: A Paean
genres: Fiction, Novels, Erotica, Contemporary
ratings_count: 611
publisher: Back Bay Books