{"title":"Allie Rowbottom","description":"Allie Rowbottom is the author of the novel Aesthetica and the memoir Jell-O Girls. Her writing can be found in The New York Times, Elle, Playboy, and Vanity Fair. She holds a PhD in literature and creative writing and lives in Los Angeles.","products":[{"product_id":"lovers-xxx-hardcover","title":"Lovers XXX - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSet against the neon-lit porn world of 1980s Los Angeles, a raw and evocative portrait of sex, friendship, and the perilous edge of liberation for two young women--from the author of \u003ci\u003eAesthetica.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor fans of Mary Gaitskill, Emma Cline, and Rachel Kushner. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLos Angeles, 1982. Eighteen-year-old Jude, newly out of reform school, is searching for her best friend, Winnie, when she falls under the spell of an older man with a motorcycle, a needle, and a taste for danger. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat begins as an escape spirals into motel rooms, stickups, and drug binges. Jude eventually finds Winnie, now Velvet, dancing at a Sunset Strip club. Together they imagine a future--bartending, writing, building a life of their own--but the same world that offers glamour and freedom threatens to consume them. Survival means navigating men who promise love, power, and escape--always at a cost. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLovers XXX\u003c\/i\u003e is a cool-eyed re-creation of the world of '80s adult filmmaking, and a hypnotic novel of friendship, self-invention, and sexual identity beyond binaries. Above all, it is a singular love story between two vulnerable, defiant women.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51375103967455,"sku":"9781641297301","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/piK8ypj_8Y9781641297301.webp?v=1789193042"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/allie-rowbottom.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}