Love Junkie
  • Published: 5 March 2026
  • ISBN: 9781837311422
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272

Love Junkie

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'One of the tragicomic classics of the AIDS era' The Nation

Mimi Smithers, forty-something housewife and aesthete manquée, has moved with her Union Carbide husband from Tehran to Westchester. Life takes an unexpected turn when she meets Joel, a dazzlingly handsome porn star. Soon she tumbles down the rabbit hole of Manhattan and Fire Island society, helping glamorous Joel with his lucrative mail order business (signed photographs, used underwear, 'verbal abuse audiotapes'), and her real dreams and adventures begin. A Madame Bovary for the heyday of gay New York, Love Junkie, first published in 1992, is reissued here in its full and naked glory.
  • Published: 5 March 2026
  • ISBN: 9781837311422
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272
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One of the tragicomic classics of the AIDS era. In a groovier universe, Plunket would have gone on publishing novels in addition to his journalism… As it is, the strength and singularity of the two books he did publish demand an accounting of their place in the American fiction of the 1980s and ’90s

The Nation

Hilarious, very sad, and constantly teetering on the brink of being genuinely offensive. But it isn’t offensive!

Lauren Oyler

Love Junkie is a comedy of manners with a time bomb ticking behind the curtain

New York Times