This is a coming of age novel about a young man who has just left college and has moved to New York. It is the height of the grunge years - the mid 90s. He breaks up with his girlfriend after becoming involved with her seventeen year old sister, whose only aspiration is to become a supermodel. The story is peopled by fantastic, eclectic characters - whores, mercenaries, environmental canvassers and pornographers. The young man is thrown from his sheltered, suburban middle class upbringing to the raw side of this great city, and experiences desire and heady freedom as he never has done before, nor will again.
- ISBN10 029764582X
- ISBN13 9780297645825
- Publish Date 1 January 2010
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 13 June 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English