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Author Handler, Daniel, author

Title All the dirty parts : a novel / Daniel Handler
Published New York Bloomsbury USA, 2017

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Description 134 pages ; 22 cm
Summary Cole is a boy in high school. He runs cross country, he sketches, he jokes around with friends. But none of this quite matters next to the allure of sex. "Let me put it this way," he says. "Draw a number line, with zero is you never think about sex and ten is, it's all you think about, and while you are drawing the line, I am thinking about sex." Cole fantasizes about whomever he's looking at. He consumes and shares pornography. And he sleeps with a lot of girls, which is beginning to earn him a not-quite-savory reputation around school. This leaves him adrift with only his best friend for company, and then something startling starts to happen between them that might be what he's been after all this time and then he meets Grisaille. All The Dirty Parts is an unblinking take on teenage desire in a culture of unrelenting explicitness and shunted communication, where sex feels like love, but no one knows what love feels like. With short chapters in the style of Jenny Offill or Mary Robison, Daniel Handler gives us a tender, brutal, funny, intoxicating portrait of an age when the lens of sex tilts the world
Subject Teenagers -- Sexual behaviour -- Fiction
High school students -- Fiction.
Dating (Social customs) -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Reading nook.
Erotic fiction.
Bildungsromans.
LC no. 2016046093
ISBN 9781632868046 (hardcover)