Synopsis
A collection of over 300 columns by the irreverent syndicated advice columnist who has caught the attention of those who usually do not read advice columns.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1998-10-01 |
| Size | | Length: | 304 pages | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 11.2 oz |
Publisher's Note
An original and funny thinker, trashing around in the playground of human sexuality, Savage advises on a wide range of titillating topics.
Welcome to the hot new wave of writing about sex: Savage Love. Columnist Dan Savage has hand-picked over 300 letters from six years worth of "Savage Love," a no-holds-barred syndicated sex-advice column which runs in 16 papers in the United States and Canada, including The Village Voice and the San Francisco Weekly. An original and funny thinker, thrashing around in the playground of human sexuality, Savage advises on a wide range of titillating topics: * What is the best seduction music? * How do I come out to my fundamentalist parents? * What is so wonderful about intercourse, anyway? Forget Anka Radakovich and Isadora Altman. Tune in to Dan Savage as he answers these questions and much more in his own uniquely irreverent and sexually spunky style.
Industry Reviews
"...[T]he truth about the notorious sexpert is that behind all the geared-to-make-you-catch-your-breath vocabulary, behind the graphic how tos and buoyant departures from decorum, he's an extraordinarily sensible guy."
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review - Cristina Nehring (12/27/1998)
Sex advice columns provide enlightenment for the erotically challenged as well as voyeuristic entertainment, and the aptonymic Savage delivers on both counts. Channeling Dr. Ruth through the acid pen of H.L. Mencken, he leaves no fool unskewered while delivering startlingly frank, howlingly funny, and consistently excellent guidance for the intimate dilemmas of straights, gays, and everyone else. With his six-year-old column now syndicated in 16 newspapers, Savage maintains that his gayness gives him an advantage in his craft. Certainly his large hetero fan club as well as this book testify to his catholic skills. Dingbat-lovers, beware. Savage does not use four-letter words so much as wear them, with considerable and appropriate impact. The unique effect is of old-fashioned common sense, unconstrained by political correctness and cloaked in ultraradical lingo. Especially recommended for libraries in urban and university locations and wherever Savage Love is syndicated.
Kakutani
"The American advice column has grown fangs."
Douglas
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