Stripper Lessons

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Stripper Lessons
Authors and Contributors      By (author) John O'Brien
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:192
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780802135070
ClassificationsDewey:FIC
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Publication Date 13 June 1997
Publication Country United States

Description

John O'Brien's books have established him as a writer who communicated the voice of the loner with blistering realness and unmistakable force. Stripper Lessons is perhaps O'Brien's most interior and intense novel, a powerful story of one man's obsessive search to belong. Here is the dark and simple life of Carroll, a middle-aged, unmarried, friendless man whose only joy is watching beautiful women dance. Terribly shy and unable to socialize with the people around him, Carroll's fascination with the women at his favorite club is totally innocent-he finds solace in the routine, the rules, and the predictability of the action. But when his desire for a particular dancer takes him one step too far, his entire life threatens to crumble.