Sarah

By: JT LeRoy

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Paperback | 11 October 2016 | Edition Number 1

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160 Pages

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1.2 x 12.6 x 19.8

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Sarah never admits that she's his mother, but the beautiful boy has watched her survive as a "lot lizard": a prostitute working the West Virginia truck stops. Desperate to win her love, he decides to surpass her as the best and most famous lot lizard ever. With his own leather mini-skirt and a makeup bag that closes with Velcro, the young "Cherry Vanilla" embarks on a journey through the Appalachian wilds, dining on transcendental cuisine, supplicating to the mystical Jackalope, encountering the most terrifying of pimps, walking on water, being venerated as an innocent girl saint-and then being denounced as the devil.

By turns exhilarating and shocking, magical and realistic, Sarah brings urgency, wit, and imagination to an unknown and unforgettable world.

About the Author

JT LeRoy is the literary persona created by Laura Albert. She is the author of Sarah, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, and Harold's End

Industry Reviews

A deft and imaginative...novel New York Times Book Review LeRoy's work is a startling achievement in his accelerating mastery of the literary form -- Publishers Weekly

Extraordinarily, LeRoy manages to lace this story with tenderness and humour. Not for the fainthearted, these few raw pages constitute a breathtaking debut -- Guardian

Sarah is surprising, upsetting, offensive, and fun. It's everything a good read - or good sex for that matter - should be -- Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club

Like a cross between Nathanael West and Mark Twain, drunk out of their minds and collaborating on Charlie's Angels meets The Headless Horseman - Sarah is a wildly comic tour de force and a brilliant debut -- Mary Gaitskill, author of Two Girls, Fat and Thin

LeRoy brushed achingly close to duplicating Genet's legerdemain - mythologizing self-abasement so as to transform it into glorious apotheosis -- New York Times

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