false 20774 8 3 253969 033043831X 9780330438315 43 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/253969.Happy_Baby 3.79 201 20774 3.75 704 163 2004 277762 1573442550 9781573442558 38 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173368666m/277762.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173368666s/277762.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/277762.My_Girlfriend_Comes_to_the_City_and_Beats_Me_Up 3.75 161 My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up follows the narrator on a dizzying ride through past and present, from a group home for troubled adolescents in Chicago where he loses his virginity to shooting galleries and homeless encampments in San Francisco where he searches for deeper and darker thrills. In “Other Desires,” a flood of unsettling memories backgrounds the narrator’s involvement with a loose-knit family of lost souls. “Tears” explores the disturbing complexities of an S/M Internet hook-up. Several of the stories feature the enigmatic Eden, the narrator’s polyamorous mistress. With My Girlfriend, Elliott confirms his status as a major young writer of a kind of literary fiction that recalls the work of Genet and Bukowski. </div>]]> 20774 3.75 704 163 2006 6397953 1555975380 9781555975388 40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1246279261m/6397953.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1246279261s/6397953.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6397953-the-adderall-diaries 3.88 122
At the time of Sturgeon’s confession, Stephen Elliot is paralyzed by writer’s block, in the thrall of Adderall dependency, and despondent over the state of his romantic life. But he is fascinated by Sturgeon, whose path he has often crossed in San Francisco’s underground S&M scene. What kind of person, he wonders, confesses to a murder he likely did not commit? One answer is, perhaps, a man like Elliott’s own father.

So begins a riveting journey through a neon landscape of false confessions, self-medication, and torturous sex. Set against the backdrop of a nation at war, in the declining years of the Silicon Valley tech boom and the dawn of Paris Hilton’s celebrity, The Adderall Diaries is at once a gripping account of a murder trial and a scorching investigation of the self. Tough, tender, and unflinchingly honest, it is the breakout book by one of the most daring writers of his generation.</DIV></DIV>]]> 20774 3.75 704 163 2009 277763 1931561192 9781931561198 9 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173368666m/277763.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173368666s/277763.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/277763.A_Life_Without_Consequences 3.55 38 A Life Without Consequences is a semi-biographical novel from emerging author Stephen Elliott. His novel traces the fate of Paul, a boy whose mother has died and who runs away from a violent father. The book follows Paul from living on the streets of Chicago to passing through juvenile institutions and a state system that is primarily programmed for failure. There, he meets Tanya and they fall in love but they are young and are separated after a failed attempt to escape the institution. Paul battles through the violent system all the while battling his own rapidly budding adolescence. But as he turns sixteen he starts to come to terms with his own path, not as an adult, but as a scared child and we see that Paul's emotions that we think of as anger are actually the determination to take control of his future. While the characters are fictional, they are representative of many and we realize the fragility of childhood and the burden on the children who have nowhere else to go.

]]> 20774 3.75 704 163 2001 277766 0312424159 9780312424152 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173368668m/277766.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173368668s/277766.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/277766.Looking_Forward_to_It_Or_How_I_Learned_to_Stop_Worrying_and_Love_the_American_Electoral_Process 3.56 36 20774 3.75 704 163 2004 1153918 0061351210 9780061351211 15 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1153918.Sex_for_America_Politically_Inspired_Erotica 3.43 35 Sex for America takes us to the intersection of our desires and our political beliefs. These provocative stories by some of today's best writers, including Anthony Swofford, Jerry Stahl, Rick Moody, and Jonathan Ames, will inspire new discussions of sexual freedom and fascination. A surprising encounter between a lesbian and a young man shipping off to war, a liberal Hill staffer falling for the wife of a Republican senator, and Dick Cheney's duck hunt accident as jilted lover's revenge. See your government—and your most recent sex partners—as you've never seen them before.

]]> 20774 3.75 704 163 2008 247935 1931561184 9781931561181 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173116365m/247935.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173116365s/247935.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/247935.What_It_Means_to_Love_You_A_Novel 3.52 27 20774 3.75 704 163 2002 579853 1596921587 9781596921580 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175975929m/579853.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175975929s/579853.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/579853.Stumbling_And_Raging_More_Politically_Inspired_Fiction 3.92 13 20774 3.75 704 163 2006 1032512 1931561583 9781931561587 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180375245m/1032512.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180375245s/1032512.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1032512.Politically_Inspired 3.75 4 20774 3.75 704 163 2003 821839 0375721312 9780375721311 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178682375m/821839.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178682375s/821839.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/821839.Random_House_Webster_s_Crossword_Puzzle_Dictionary_4th_Edition 4.00 1 20774 3.75 704 163 1994