{"product_id":"lovers-xxx-a-novel-isbn-9781641299299","title":"Lovers XXX: A Novel","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\u003eFor fans of Mary Gaitskill, Emma Cline, and Rachel Kushner.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLos Angeles, 1982. Eighteen-year-old Jude, newly out of reform school, is searching for her best friend, Winnie, when she falls under the spell of an older man with a motorcycle, a needle, and a taste for danger.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat begins as an escape spirals into motel rooms, stickups, and drug binges. Jude eventually finds Winnie, now Velvet, dancing at a Sunset Strip club. Together they imagine a future—bartending, writing, building a life of their own—but the same world that offers glamour and freedom threatens to consume them. Survival means navigating men who promise love, power, and escape—always at a cost.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLovers XXX\u003c\/i\u003e is a cool-eyed re-creation of the world of ’80s adult filmmaking, and a hypnotic novel of friendship, self-invention, and sexual identity beyond binaries. Above all, it is a singular love story between two vulnerable, defiant women.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52158837063909,"sku":"NP9781641299299","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/lovers-xxx-a-novel-isbn-9781641299299","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}