Jerry Stahl’s Plainclothes Naked | Signed First Edition with Great Inscription

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Jerry Stahl has long occupied his own corner of American literature, writing with equal parts addiction memoir, noir, satire, and pitch-black comedy. Plainclothes Naked may be his wildest novel, spinning together crime, corruption, politics, obsession, and doomed romance into a story only Stahl could have imagined. The result is both hilarious and unsettling, earning praise from Anthony Bourdain, James Ellroy, Nick Tosches, Tobias Wolff, and Benicio Del Toro.

This copy carries an especially memorable inscription addressed to “Bouncin’ Bill Burroughs,” ending with the wonderfully Stahl-esque line, “See you in hell.” You know the story. I ask authors to inscribe books to their favorite dead heroes at book signings. Most do. Some don’t.

A fun “association copy” from one of America’s sharpest and darkest comic novelists.