From bestselling, award-winning author Daniel Handler, a gutsy, exciting novel that looks honestly at the erotic impulses of an all-too-typical young man.
Cole is a boy in high school.
The story I\'m typing is all the Dirty parts.”. “This isn\'t that. “There are love stories galore,” Cole tells us.
With short chapters in the style of Jenny Offill or Mary Robison, Daniel Handler gives us a tender, brutal, funny, intoxicating portrait of an age when the lens of sex tilts the world.
This leaves him adrift with only his best friend for company, and then something startling starts to happen between them that might be what he\'s been after all this time-and then he meets Grisaille.
All the Dirty Parts is an unblinking take on teenage desire in a culture of unrelenting explicitness and shunted communication, where sex feels like love, but no one knows what love feels like.
And he sleeps with a lot of girls, which is beginning to earn him a not-quite-savory reputation around school.
He consumes and shares pornography. “Draw a number line, with zero is, you never think about sex and ten is, it\'s all you think about, and while you are drawing the line, I am thinking about sex.”Cole fantasizes about whomever he\'s looking at. “Let me put it this way,” he says.
But none of this quite matters next to the allure of sex.
He runs cross country, he sketches, he jokes around with friends.
From bestselling, award-winning author Daniel Handler, a gutsy, exciting novel that looks honestly at the erotic impulses of an all-too-typical young man.
Cole is a boy in high school
