The harrowing story of Jerry Stahl, a Hollywood television writer, husband, father, and heroin addict. Stahl writes honestly about his descent into the world of drugs, and how he found his way back.
The master of absurdist postmodern pulp fiction ("Elle") returns with his long-awaited follow up to the acclaimed "Plainclothes Naked," in his most hallucinogenic work yet.
A wildly picaresque novel about a mixed-up kid named Bobby Stark, who takes off for California with his wacky girlfriend. En route, they encounter a cast of characters that turns dangerous--in a blackly comic way.
Jerry Stahl, author of scabrous memoirs of drug and sex addiction, tries his hand at the police procedural in this tale of a madcap search for compromising photos of the U.S. president. Pennsylvania detective Manny Rupert, whose ex-wife is featured in the photos, tries to beat various villains to the prize.
From the bestselling author of the memoir "Permanent Midnight" and the novel "I, Fatty" comes a long-awaited collection of short stories. Stahls perverse yet often touching tales plumb the depths of eccentric romance, sex-starved adolescence, mid-life crisis, and family dysfunction.
In this highly acclaimed novel, the author of "Permanent Midnight" channels fallen early-Hollywood star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. Fatty tells his own story of success, addiction, and a precipitous fall from grace after being framed for a brutal crime--a national media scandal that set the precedent for those so familiar today.
This work tells how Jerry Stahl - father, husband, writer and heroin addict - slipped into an opiated abyss, and how he clawed his way out. Starting life as the prototypical middle-class kid, he endured his father's early death, his mother's descent into major depression and life on his own from the age of 16. After penning scripts for cult film ...
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