Perv-- a love story
By: Jerry Stahl.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: William Morrow and Co.
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
Description: "Set in 1970 - in the last dark days of hippiedom - Perv - A Love Story is the saga of Bobby Stark, a sixteen-year-old batch of angst and hormones struggling to stay sane in a world gone Day-Glo."--BOOK JACKET.

"As the novel opens, Bobby loses his virginity in a drug-addled tryst with a one-armed barber's daughter. His best friend rats him out, and Bobby gets kicked out of school and sent home to live with his mom, a sozzled electroshock aficionado who can't get over the insult of Bobby's father's suicide-by-streetcar.

After myriad depraved encounters with his mother's "dates," including a lip-licking scoutmaster and terminally drunk public defender, Bobby flees the horrors of condo-land in search of the girl of his dreams, a lapsed Hare Krishna-ette named Michelle over whom he's obsessed since kindergarten. Young Michelle joined the cult to get away from her groping stepdaddy, only to find more bad karma with a sexed up swami."--BOOK JACKET.

"In the spirit of the times, the couple decides to hitchhike to San Francisco. Before they make mile one, they're picked up by a pair of Bad Hippies - Meat and Varnish - smacked-out spiritual cousins to Charles Manson. From here the trip gets harrowing, as the duo narrowly escape rape and torture, vanquish their assailants, and stagger from Meat's cranked-up Continental forever transformed."--BOOK JACKET.