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Live Girls
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Live Girls

Beth Nugent
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Following her critically acclaimed collection of short stories, City of Boys, Beth Nugent brings her dark and eerie vision to a powerful first novel.

Live Girls is the story of Catherine, in her twenties, who sells tickets in a run-down porn theater in a decrepit port city, A sign in the window of the seedy hotel where she lives reads Transients Welcome. Her only friend is Jerome, an anorexic drag queen who searches for love among the sailors.

As Catherine and Jerome set out for Hollywood, we witness -with equal horror and fascination – their desperate attempt to find redemption in a world that offers them so little.

In haunting, stylized prose, Nugent takes us deep into her protagonist’s psyche while painting a bizarre – yet oddly familiar – picture of a dissociated, disconnected America. Live Girls is a tour de force that will leave no one who reads it unshaken.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Country
United States
Date
8 December 1997
Pages
208
ISBN
9780679744245

Following her critically acclaimed collection of short stories, City of Boys, Beth Nugent brings her dark and eerie vision to a powerful first novel.

Live Girls is the story of Catherine, in her twenties, who sells tickets in a run-down porn theater in a decrepit port city, A sign in the window of the seedy hotel where she lives reads Transients Welcome. Her only friend is Jerome, an anorexic drag queen who searches for love among the sailors.

As Catherine and Jerome set out for Hollywood, we witness -with equal horror and fascination – their desperate attempt to find redemption in a world that offers them so little.

In haunting, stylized prose, Nugent takes us deep into her protagonist’s psyche while painting a bizarre – yet oddly familiar – picture of a dissociated, disconnected America. Live Girls is a tour de force that will leave no one who reads it unshaken.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Country
United States
Date
8 December 1997
Pages
208
ISBN
9780679744245

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