{"product_id":"lovers-xxx-isbn-9781641297301","title":"Lovers XXX","description":"\u003cb\u003eSet against the neon-lit porn world of 1980s Los Angeles, a raw and evocative portrait of sex, friendship, and the perilous edge of liberation for two young women—from the author of \u003ci\u003eAesthetica.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For fans of Mary Gaitskill, Emma Cline, and Rachel Kushner.\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, stickups, 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, and 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.\u003cu\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eLovers XXX\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A glamorous, sun-drenched Los Angeles epic set in the early ‘80s, during the so-called Golden Age of pornography... Raw and moving, [\u003ci\u003eLovers XXX\u003c\/i\u003e] explores the intimate and complex friendship between two adult film starlets as they navigate sex, drugs, and life on the neon-lit margins.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Playboy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eLovers XXX\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003ci\u003ePersona\u003c\/i\u003e set in the '80s porn world—thrillingly literary; thrillingly sleazy.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Lili Anolik, author of \u003ci\u003eDidion and Babitz\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLovers XXX \u003c\/i\u003etackles the sticky subjects of female sexuality, objectification and desire with a smoothness that appears effortless. Allie Rowbottom’s writing has a rare combination of deep compassion, prescient insight, and just plain coolness that I’m in awe of.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Coco Mellors, author of \u003ci\u003eBlue Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“You’re thrown right into \u003ci\u003eLovers XXX\u003c\/i\u003e and it doesn’t stop. Allie writes about desire, survival, intimacy, and exploitation with a kind of feral tenderness. She turns stick-ups, strip clubs, and motel rooms into a fever dream that makes ruin look romantic. Impossible to put down!”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Madeline Cash, author of \u003ci\u003eLost Lambs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Smart, sad, sexy, and at times surprisingly sweet, Allie Rowbottom’s \u003ci\u003eLovers XXX\u003c\/i\u003e does for the stars of adult filmmaking what her previous novel \u003ci\u003eAesthetica\u003c\/i\u003e did for cosmetically enhanced influencers: It casts a humanising spell, transforming the women at its centre from mere naked flesh into something more like real flesh and blood. Beneath all that silicone and slickness, Rowbottom locates a warm, beating heart.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Philippa Snow, author of \u003ci\u003eIt's Terrible the Things I Have to Do to Be Me\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAllie Rowbottom\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eAesthetica \u003c\/i\u003eand the memoir \u003ci\u003eJell-O Girls\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editors’ Choice Selection, Indie Next Pick, and \u003ci\u003eReal Simple\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year. Allie’s essays and short fiction can be found in \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e, Salon, Lit Hub, \u003ci\u003eNo Tokens\u003c\/i\u003e, NY Tyrant, \u003ci\u003eThe Drunken Canal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAlta Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBitch\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She holds a PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Houston and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and lives in Los Angeles with her husband, the writer Jon Lindsey.","brand":"Soho Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233353216229,"sku":"NP9781641297301","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781641297301.jpg?v=1767731926","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/lovers-xxx-isbn-9781641297301","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}