Chicken by David Henry Sterry
Be it spring cleaning in a see-through apron while two wealthy women have sex or performing with 'Tinker Bell' while 'Peter Pan' whips her, the life of a teenage prostitute in Beverly Hills was never dull. Often dark, sometimes hilarious, but never dull. Arriving in LA to attend college, but desperate for money, Sterry met a pimp who established him as a male prostitute serving a wild variety of well-off women (and occasionally men). This is his unflinching account of the twisted Wonderland of post-Sixities excess he encountered: peppered with frank descriptions of the work of a 'sex technician'.
Even as confessional memoirs go, David Sterry's Chicken stands out from the restAlternately farcical, grotesque, brutal and sad. * * The Bookseller * *
Sordid, painful and often hilarious. * * Guardian * *
Sterry writes with comic brio . . . he's honed a vibrant outrageous writing style and turned out this studiously wild souvenir of a chequered past. * * New York Times * *
Unflinching and perceptive without being mawkish, and often very funny. * * Independent on Sunday * *
Sordid, painful and often hilarious. * * Guardian * *
Sterry writes with comic brio . . . he's honed a vibrant outrageous writing style and turned out this studiously wild souvenir of a chequered past. * * New York Times * *
Unflinching and perceptive without being mawkish, and often very funny. * * Independent on Sunday * *
David Henry Sterry was at the centre of the hedonistic madness of Manhattan in the 1980s as the roller-skating emcee of Chippendales nightclub. He has also worked as an actor, a marriage counsellor, a screenwriter, a comedian and an athlete. His first memoir, Chicken, told the story of his teenage years as a prostitute/college student in Beverly Hills. He lives in California. His latest book is Unzipped.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781841954820 |
| ISBN 10 | 1841954829 |
| Title | Chicken |
| Author | David Henry Sterry |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Canongate Books |
| Year published | 2004-02-28 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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