Lovers XXX - Rowbottom, Allie
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It's 1982 and eighteen-year-old Jude steps off the bus onto Hollywood Boulevard, looking for her best friend Winnie. She eventually finds her working at a strip club called Ladies of the Valley, known for its connections to the adult film industry, and soon she is dancing and stripping there herself. But there is more money to be made away from the hot spotlights of the stage, and soon both Winnie and Jude are starring in hardcore adult videos. Dazzled by the drugs, sex and parties their new life offers, they are also beset by sexism, bitter competition and the precarity of life on the…mehr

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It's 1982 and eighteen-year-old Jude steps off the bus onto Hollywood Boulevard, looking for her best friend Winnie. She eventually finds her working at a strip club called Ladies of the Valley, known for its connections to the adult film industry, and soon she is dancing and stripping there herself. But there is more money to be made away from the hot spotlights of the stage, and soon both Winnie and Jude are starring in hardcore adult videos. Dazzled by the drugs, sex and parties their new life offers, they are also beset by sexism, bitter competition and the precarity of life on the margins, and when their friendship ends in recrimination and a dramatic act of betrayal, Jude goes missing and Winnie can find no trace of her. Thirty years later, newly divorced and down-on-her-luck, Winnie decides it is time to face her past. Determined to solve the mystery of what happened to Jude, she sets out to brave the dark underbelly of the adult industry she was once intimately familiar with ...
Autorenporträt
Allie Rowbottom is the author of the debut novel Aesthetica, named a best book of 2022 by NPR, Glamour, and Vanity Fair, and the New York Times Editors' Choice memoir Jell-O Girls. Her reported piece, "Are We All Technosexuals Now?" was the lead story for the 2024 New York Times Style Section Valentines Day feature. Her short story "He Dreams About the Bunny Ranch," published by Alta Journal, was a finalist for the National Magazine Award in fiction in 2023. Other essays and short fiction can be found at Vanity Fair, Elle, NY Tyrant, The London Times, Forever Mag, Florida Review, Gulf Coast and elsewhere. She holds a PhD in creative writing and literature from the University of Houston and lives in Los Angeles.