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Love Junkie

Robert Plunket
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Product details

  • ISBN 9780241795095
  • Weight: 206g
  • Dimensions: 130 x 197mm
  • Publication Date: 05 Mar 2026
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

A Madame Bovary for the heyday of gay New York, Love Junkie is a riotously funny, razor-sharp tale about wanting it all

‘He was a charismatic porn star who sold his dirty underwear. I was an upper-middle-class housewife from Bronxville’

Mimi Smithers, bored aesthete manquée, 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 Times

‘One of the tragicomic classics of the AIDS era’ The Nation
About Robert Plunket
Robert Plunket was born in Greenville, Texas, in 1945, but raised in Havana and Mexico City. After college he moved to New York and became Mr Chatterbox, the gossip columnist for Sarasota Magazine. He has published two novels, My Search for Warren Harding (1983) and Love Junkie (1992). He is retired and lives in a trailer park in Englewood, Florida, where he enjoys collecting old quilts and raising succulents from scratch.

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