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A Place Like This|Mark S. King

A Place Like This : A Memoir

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Once you've won a car on a game show, been an actor, owned a phone sex company, been infected with HIV, slept with a movie icon and developed a drug addiction, you've pretty much done the Hollywood thing. In this true, first-person account of the 1980's, Los Angeles transforms an all-American boy from an actor in commercials plugging fast food to a gay phone line worker pushing fast sex. King experiences firsthand nearly every gay social milestone of an astonishing decade-drug use, the phone sex trade, the onset of AIDS, Rock Hudson, assisted suicide, anonymous encounters, the early development of AIDS organizations and activism, Magic Johnson's announcement-and shares his experiences with disarming humor and startling candor. AIDS eventually converts King's plunge into sex and drugs to an increasing awareness of mortality-and a renewed search for meaning.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780595474752
  • ISBN-10: 0595474756
  • Publisher: iUniverse
  • Publish Date: October 2007
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.45 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.65 pounds
  • Page Count: 196

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