The Gentle Degenerates (Vassi Collection) [Paperback]

Marco Vassi (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1993 | Series: Vassi Collection (Book 3)

Marco Vassi was possibly the greatest erotic writer of his generation. His first publisher at Olympia Press, Maurice Girodias, compares his talent for prose to Henry Miller's writing. His sexual explorations and literary talent are the foundations of nine novels written between 1970 and 1976. Although his life was cut short, his memory lives on with the release of The Vassi Collection. The collection includes nine fiction titles and his autobiographical memoir, THE STONED APOCALYPSE, which follows his sexual liberation while on a trip he took in the sixties. Join Vassi in his exploration of the human sexual and spiritual experience. In THE GENTLE DEGENERATES, a young man let loose in the human potential movement travels from one end of the country to the other, opening himself to all the possible variations of sexual experience and trying to find love in the midst of explosive and unlimited sensuality.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Marco Vassi aficionados as well as the uninitiated will be glad to hear that ten of Vassi's books, all long out of print and generally unavailable, have been republished. Vassi's life and his writing were so intimately connected that it often was hard to tell which was at the service of the other. His novels stand as vivid documentation of the crazy wisdom and the exhilarated sexual explorations that occurred during what we sometimes honor but more often dismiss these days as 'the sexual revolution'. -- David Steinberg, LIBIDO

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Permanent Pr Pub Co (April 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0933256833
• ISBN-13: 978-0933256835
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,955,701 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: The Gentle Degenerates (Vassi Collection) (Paperback)

As with all Vassi's works, choreographed by G-d, the book tells of the dance as beautifully as it was lived. His writing is as pretty and deep as is his face, his mind and his soul. Taste it and wisdom, if you are ready, will flow all about you, through you, from you, to you.