Prozac Highway
of Persimmon Blackbridge
Description
From the author of Sunnybrook comes a rollicking new novel about Internet romance, pharmaceutical remedies for life, and far-flung family."Blackbridge's prose is direct and stylishly simple". -- Quill & QuireProzac Highway veers along like an accident waiting to happen. Its heroine, Jam, has a hard time walking to the corner store because she's so depressed, but her life on the Internet is one delirious ride. Featuring a group of eccentric misfits out to prove that you can fight city hall, and a steamy on-line affair that deepens into love, her virtual life is everything that her real Life isn't. The story intercuts her present career dilemma as an over-forty lesbian porn star, with her teenage acid-head past and her various sexual misadventures. Jam's far-flung family -- her Net friends Junior and Fruitbat, her long-time artist-partner, Roz, and Cynthia the phone-sex worker -- stick with her through it all as she navigates the shifting terrain of urban madness, Prozac and virtual reality.Blackbridge writes with wry wit and an ear for contemporary dialogue. With Prozac Highway she takes readers on a hair-raising cyberlit journey that explores multiple dimensions of family and the challenges of aging rebelliously.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 267 pages
- Publisher Press Gang Publishers
- Publication Date October 1st 1997
- First Publication Not informed
- Language English
- ISBN 9780889740785
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
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