{"product_id":"lovers-xxx-9781641297301","title":"Lovers XXX","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor fans of Mary Gaitskill, Lisa Taddeo, and Rachel Kushner: a raw and unforgettable portrait of friendship, sex, and the perilous edge of liberation—set against the neon-lit porn world of 1980s Los Angeles.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLos Angeles, 1982. Jude is eighteen, newly out of reform school and hungry for more than her small-town past can offer. Searching for her best friend Winnie, she instead falls under the spell of Laird, an older man with a motorcycle, a needle, and a taste for danger. What begins as escape soon unravels into motel rooms, stick-ups, and drug binges.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen Jude finds Winnie, reinvented as Velvet at a Sunset Strip club. Together, the two girls imagine a future: bartending, dancing, writing the novels they dream of, building a home of their own. But the same world that promises glamour and freedom is poised to consume them, and survival demands that they navigate the men who offer love, power, or escape—always at a cost.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith Joan Didion’s eye for California’s allure and shadows, and told in a two-part structure reminiscent of Lauren Groff’s \u003ci\u003eFates and Furies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLovers XXX\u003c\/i\u003e is a hypnotic novel of friendship and self-invention, of sexual identity beyond binaries, and of the costs of giving one’s body to the performance of sex. Above all, it is a love story like no other—between two ardent, vulnerable, and revelatory women.","brand":"Soho Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53734132056407,"sku":"9781641297301","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/lovers-xxx-9781641297301","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}