Bibliograph

Sarah, J.T. LeRoy

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Sarah, J.T. LeRoy

Language

eng

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Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

Main title

Sarah

Responsibility statement

J.T. LeRoy

Summary

A reissue of the national bestselling novel by JT LeRoy/Laura Albert Sarah never admits that she is 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 miniskirt 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. "Deft and imaginative." "[An] edgy but thoroughly engaging first novel...larger than life...comically Dickensian." "Genuinely moving." "JT LeRoy's masterful imagination, command of story, and easy sense of the mythological are a rare combination that demands attention."

Target audience

adult

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