Summary
‘One of the tragicomic classics of the AIDS era’ - The Nation
Mimi Smithers, forty-something housewife and aesthete manquee, has moved with her Union Carbide husband from Tehran to Westchester. Life takes an unexpected turn when she meets Joel, a dazzlingly handsome porn star. Soon she tumbles down the rabbit hole of Manhattan and Fire Island society, helping glamorous Joel with his lucrative mail order business (signed photographs, used underwear, ‘verbal abuse audiotapes’), and her …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241795095 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241795095 |
| Author: | Robert Plunket |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 9 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 206g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 18mm |
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Critics Review
Love Junkie is a comedy of manners with a time bomb ticking behind the curtain * New York Times *
Hilarious, very sad, and constantly teetering on the brink of being genuinely offensive. But it isn’t offensive! – Lauren Oyler
One of the tragicomic classics of the AIDS era. In a groovier universe, Plunket would have gone on publishing novels in addition to his journalism… As it is, the strength and singularity of the two books he did publish demand an accounting of their place in the American fiction of the 1980s and ’90s * The Nation *
About The Author
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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