Name: Sarah
ISBN: 9788881125661

J. T. Leroy

Sarah

JT LeRoy

National Bestseller Featuring a foreword by Billy Corgan A reissue of the national bestselling novel by JT LeRoy/Laura Albert—published to coincide with the new Jeff Feuerzeig documentary: Author: The JT LeRoy Story, which will have a theatrical release in July 2016. “A deft and imaginative…novel.”—New York Times Book Review 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.

A Novel

Juan Sacco

J.T. LeRoy

The national bestselling first novel by a virtuosic young talent. Cherry Vanilla, twelve years old with a penchant for short leather skirts and make-up, has one dream: to become the most famous 'lot lizard', or truck stop whore, in the business. With his blond curls and his naked ambition he is determined to be more woman than most, and to match his idol, rival, and mother, Sarah. Adopting her name and sex, he heads off into the dangerous and fantastic worlds pocketed away in the West Virginian wilds. On his journey for fame he meets with sinister pimps, luck-restoring Jack-a-lopes, superstitious prostitutes who take him for a saint, and a host of bizarre and beautiful outcasts that make up his unusual, heartbreaking world.

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Sarah Roberts

Pax Nova

Jeremy T. LeRoy

C'est l'histoire d'un gamin qui veut devenir, comme sa maman, la meilleure des " gagneuses " de parkings. Affublé des vêtements de sa mère, il rôde du côté des routiers de passage au Doves Diner. Mais c'est avec Glad, le plus respecté des souteneurs, que sa carrière va commencer sous le regard bienveillant de Mama Shapiro, Bolly, le cuisinier émérite et des autres travestis. Jusqu'à sa rencontre avec Le Loup, le julot " le plus craignos et le plus duraille de toute la Virginie de l'Ouest "... Ce premier roman de J. T. Leroy, écrit à dix-neuf ans, est un véritable ovni littéraire. " Sarah est le produit d'une imagination intense, somptueuse, étrangement raffinée. Une lecture inoubliable. ", Dennis Cooper. " Sarah, c'est le sujet le plus scabreux du monde [...] décrit sous l'angle le plus merveilleux du monde. ", Arnaud Viviant, Les Inrockuptibles.

Rose Stanley

Federica

Sarah

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