Only Skin Deep by George Kimball

Only Skin Deep by George Kimball

In 1968, under pressure from the De Gaulle regime and encouraged by recent U.S. Supreme Court Decisions, the legendary French pornographer Maurice Girodias relocated his famed Olympia Press from Paris to New York. The first titles published under the new Ophelia imprint included J.P. Donleavy's The Ginger Man, Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg's Candy, and Only Skin Deep, a hilarious satire on the genre by 24-year-old George Kimball.

Only Skin Deep is a vicious and intolerable mockery of the whole filth industry.

The only book I've ever read that had sticky pages.

George Kimball was a sports columnist for the Boston Herald for 25 years, and in 1986 he was awarded the Nat Fleischer Award for Achievement in Boxing Writing. Throughout a four-decade career as a sports writer, he has covered nearly 400 world-title fights and is the author of the critically acclaimed Four Kings: Leonard, Hagler, Hearns, Duran, and the Final Great Age of Boxing. He currently resides in New York City.