Beyond

A Madame Bovary for the heyday of gay New York, Love Junkie is a riotously funny, razor-sharp tale about wanting it allHe was a charismatic porn star who sold his dirty underwear. I was an upper-middle-class housewife from BronxvilleMimi Smithers, bored aesthete manque, lives with her husband Boyce in the New York suburbs, where dreams of dazzling social success elude her. Life takes a quite unexpected turn when she meets Joel, a stunningly handsome porn star. Soon she tumbles down the rabbit hole of Manhattan and Fire Island society, helping Joel with his lucrative mail order business (signed photographs, used underwear, ‘verbal abuse audiotapes’), and her real adventures begin. A comedy of manners with a time bomb ticking behind the curtain The New York TimesOne of the tragicomic classics of the AIDS era The Nation

Product Information

Author: Robert Plunket
Binding: Paperback
Date of Publication: 05/03/2026
Pagination: 272 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Published By: Penguin Books Ltd
Book Classification: Of specific Gay interest
Dimensions: 196 x 129 x 19
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9780241795095