Chicken: Love for Sale on the Streets of Hollywood [Paperback]

Sordid, painful and often hilarious. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

A funny and disturbing tale, which belies society’s often one-dimensional attitude towards male prostitution. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Unflinching and perceptive without being mawkish, and often very funny. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Alternatively sexy and terrifying, hysterical and weird...colourful, riveting and strangely beautiful. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Emerging from an almost normal suburban family of British emigres, before descending into the life of a teenage prostitute in Hollywood, this is David Sterry's unforgettable chronicle of a season spent walking the razor-sharp edge between painful innocence and the allure of the abyss. Arriving in town to attend college, but desperate for money, Sterry was introduced to a pimp who established him as a male prostitute serving wealthy older women (and occasionally men). Juxtaposed against bitter anecdotes from Sterry's disintegrating family life is an unflinching and fascinating account of the Neverland of post-Sixties sexual excess. The frank descriptions of his 'dates' range from wickedly funny to baroque to deeply disturbing.

DAVID HENRY STERRY has worked as an actor, a marriage counselor, a screenwriter, a comedian, and an athlete. He lives in San Rafael, California. A one-man show based on Chicken will be showcased in San Francisco, with plans for its European debut at the 2003 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.