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Friction

Joe Stretch

2008352 pagesabout 5–8 hours
2008
first published
  • 2008Random House Publishing Group · ENGISBN 9781407013220
  • 2008Penguin Random House · ENGISBN 9781407013930
  • 2008Penguin Random House · ENGISBN 9781407013947
  • 2008Penguin Random House · 352 pages · ENGISBN 9780099515968
  • 2009Penguin Random House · ENGISBN 9781407064970

A remarkable debut novel about the pornography of everyday life - as hilarious as it is twisted...Justin wants a sex life, not a sex death. Rebecca wants to walk the unlit corridors of men's brains. They both want joy. Steve wants cash so he can enjoy his trendy body. He wants Carly, too, but she just wants a never-ending orgasm. Johnny wants to be touched and, if possible, he'd like to seem happy. Colin wants to know why tits make his fists clench. This is their story. They try their best. They drag their feet through the fashions, the foul, the famous and the drunk of twenty-first century Britain. They're looking for happiness. What they find is friction.In this filthy, ferocious and very very funny debut, Joe Stretch launches a full-frontal attack on the pornography of everyday life, imagining a world where shopping reigns supreme, sex has ceased to have anything to do with love, and pregnancy has become the final fetish.

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