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100 1 $aCarkeet, David.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80068787
245 10 $aCampus sexpot :$ba memoir /$cby David Carkeet.
260 $aAthens :$bUniversity of Georgia Press,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $a137 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $a"Winner of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction."--P. [iii]).
520 1 $a"In 1962 David Carkeet's drowsy hometown of Sonora, California, snapped awake at the news that it had inspired a smutty potboiler titled Campus Sexpot. Before leaving town on short notice, the novel's author had been an English teacher at the local high school, where Carkeet was a hormone-saturated sophomore. Leaving was a good idea, it turned out, for most of the characters in Campus Sexpot had been modeled after Sonora's citizens." "Carkeet uproariously recaptures his stunned, youthful reaction to the novel's sleazy take on his hometown. The innocent nowhere burg where he despaired of ever getting any "action" became, in the pages of Campus Sexpot, a sink of iniquity echoing with "animal cries of delight." Blood pounded, dams of passion broke, and marriages and careers - not to mention the basics of good writing - went straight to hell." "As Carkeet relates his own romantic fumblings to the novel's clumsy twists and turns, he also evokes the urgently hushed atmosphere in which the book circulated among friends and neighbors. Eventually, Carkeet stumbles into adulthood, where he discovers a truer definition of manhood than the one in the pages of the pulp fiction of his youth. A wry look at middle-class sexual mores and a witty appreciation of the art of the hack novel, Carkeet's memoir is, above all, a poignant and hilarious coming-of-age story sure to revive our own bittersweet teenage memories."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aCarkeet, David$xChildhood and youth.
600 10 $aCarkeet, David$xHomes and haunts$zCalifornia$zSonora.
650 0 $aNovelists, American$y20th century$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108453
651 0 $aSonora (Calif.)$xSocial life and customs.
650 0 $aFiction$xAuthorship.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85048057
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3553.A688$iZ464 2005