{"product_id":"campus-sexpot-a-memoir-paperback","title":"Campus Sexpot: A Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Carkeet\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe tipped her head sideways, her lips offering themselves to his. He remembered the fire those lips contained, the promise her kiss held. . . . In 1962 David Carkeet's drowsy hometown of Sonora, California, snapped awake at the news that it had inspired a smutty potboiler titled \u003ci\u003eCampus Sexpot\u003c\/i\u003e. Before leaving town on short notice, the novel's author had been an English teacher at the local high school, where Carkeet was a hormone-saturated sophomore. Leaving was a good idea, it turned out, for most of the characters in \u003ci\u003eCampus Sexpot\u003c\/i\u003e had been modeled after Sonora's citizens. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCarkeet uproariously recaptures his stunned, youthful reaction to the novel's sleazy take on his hometown. The innocent nowhere burg where he despaired of ever getting any \"action\" became, in the pages of \u003ci\u003eCampus Sexpot\u003c\/i\u003e, a sink of iniquity echoing with \"animal cries of delight.\" Blood pounded, dams of passion broke, and marriages and careers--not to mention the basics of good writing--went straight to hell. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Carkeet relates his own romantic fumblings to the novel's clumsy twists and turns, he also evokes the urgently hushed atmosphere in which the book circulated among friends and neighbors. Eventually, Carkeet stumbles into adulthood, where he discovers a truer definition of manhood than the one in the pages of the pulp fiction of his youth. A wry look at middle-class sexual mores and a witty appreciation of the art of the hack novel, Carkeet's memoir is, above all, a poignant and hilarious coming-of-age story sure to revive our own bittersweet teenage memories.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDAVID CARKEET's writings include five novels, three of which are \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Books: \u003ci\u003eDouble Negative\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Greatest Slump of All Time\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eI Been There Before\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Full Catastrophe\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Error of Our Ways\u003c\/i\u003e. His short stories and essays have appeared in such publications as the \u003ci\u003eNorth American Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eOxford American\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e. He resides in Vermont.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 152\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.45 x 7.85 x 5.49 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47468532334845,"sku":"9780820330136","price":32.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/SHU5dXZENE1mSnBTcjBsU3VIT1pkZz09.webp?v=1777290391","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/campus-sexpot-a-memoir-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}