Pornstar Blurb
Back in 1999, Bret wrote a jacket blurb for
Ian Gittler's book -
Pornstar - and I finally ran across it today and thought I'd post it.
Pornstar is a one-of-a-kind reading experience; its both a clear-eyed memoir and an intimate portrayal of an industry rarely written about with such seriousness. Sad and ribald, it locates a place where the scabrous and the innocent meet. The tension stems from the disparity between the rock & roll glamour of Ian Glitter's photographs - which are stunning - and the dispairing tone of his text. Glitter is totally honest about his own mixed feelings - his attraction and moral anxeity - and his honesty humanizes this world. As both voyeur and participant, he doesn't demonize porn - its neither as scummy as one might have thought nor as sexy as one might have hoped - but treats it with compassion and sympathy. Why didn't anyone write this book before?
-Bret Easton Ellis
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Previous Comments
[1] On Jul-28-2005, V wrote:
Author's last name is Gittler - not Glitter, but maybe that could be his pornstar name.
[2] On Jul-31-2005,
Bret Schlyer wrote:
Thanks for the correction.
