Soft Core: A Novel

ISBN: 0374613893

Author: Newell, Brittany

Condition: New

Vivid . . . Exhilarating . . . Soft Core is pacey and rich, full of verve, drama and detail. -The New York Times Book ReviewA young womans madcap search for her missing ex-boyfriend takes her into the sexual underground in Brittany Newells savage, tender Soft Core.Ruth is lost. Shes living in a drafty Victorian with her ex-boyfriend Dino, a ketamine dealer with a lingerie habit, overdosing on television and regretting her masters degree. When she starts dancing at a strip club, she becomes Baby Blue, seductress of crypto bros, outcasts, and old lovers alike. Plunged into this swirling underworld of beautiful women, fast cash, ungodly hours, and strangers secrets, Babys grip on reality begins to loosen. She is sure she can handle it-until one autumn morning when Dino disappears without a trace.Thus begins a nocturnal quest for the one she still loves-through the misty hills of San Francisco; in dive bars and bus depots; at the BDSM dungeon where she takes a part-time gig. Along the way, she meets Simon, a recluse who pays her for increasingly bizarre favors; a philosophizing suicide fetishist named Nobody; and Emeline, the beautiful and balletic new hire who reminds Baby of someone . . .A brutally funny, propulsive story of power, fantasy, love, and loss, Brittany Newells Soft Core is an ode to the heartbroken and unhinged, to those whose appetites lead them astray. It is a hallucinogenic romp about a girl coming undone, whose longing for friendship, romance, and revenge will take her over the edge and back again.