Chicken: Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent

by David Henry Sterry

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Emerging from an almost normal suburban family of British emigres, before descending into the life of a teenage prostitute in Hollywood, this is David Sterry's unforgettable chronicle of a season spent walking the razor-sharp edge between painful innocence and the allure of the abyss. Arriving in town to attend college, but desperate for money, Sterry was introduced to a pimp who established him as a male prostitute serving wealthy older women (and occasionally men). Juxtaposed against bitter anecdotes from Sterry's disintegrating family life is an unflinching and fascinating account of the Neverland of post-Sixties sexual excess. The frank descriptions of his 'dates' range from wickedly funny to baroque to deeply disturbing.
  • ISBN10 0060528516
  • ISBN13 9780060528515
  • Publish Date 1 March 2003 (first published 1 February 2002)
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Imprint ReganBooks
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 256
  • Language English