Permanent Obscurity
Or a Cautionary Tale of Two Girls and Their Misadventures with Drugs, Pornography and Death
**[PERMANENT OBSCURITY: Or a Cautionary Tale of Two Girls and Their Misadventures with Drugs, Pornography and Death by Dolores Santana (as told to Richard Perez)][1]** * A youthful bohemian satire, * a story of alienated nonconformists, * a "girls on the lam" story, * a sexploitation and S/M romp, * a spoof of cult celebrity and "true-life" tabloid sensationalism MORE ABOUT THE BOOK: [PERMANENT OBSCURITY][2] is not "erotica," although it has BDSM overtones (leaning toward so-called "[femdom][3]"). It's really a dark comedy about bohemia and the difficulty of relationships (female/male and female/female) and finally the big question for anyone in the arts (or in the tabloid media): sudden fame vs. [permanent anonymity][4]. The style of the novel is inspired by '60s over-the-top sexploition films like those of Russ Meyer ([FASTER PUSSYCAT KILL KILL][5], BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS) and those [Something Weird Videos][6], like A SWEET SICKNESS and BAD GIRLS GO TO HELL [so-called "cautionary tales"]) -- updated to the Bush era (circa 2006). ![alt text][7] **[PERMANENT OBSCURITY: Or a Cautionary Tale of Two Girls and Their Misadventures with Drugs, Pornography and Death by Dolores Santana (as told to Richard Perez)][8]** Written in the 3 parts: PERMANENT OBSCURITY: PART 1 - THE KINKY HOOK ... Whereupon we are introduced to Dolores and Serena and their kinky shenanigans. PERMANENT OBSCURITY: PART 2 - STRANGE HUNGERS ... Whereupon Dolores and Serena grapple with relationship/sexuality issues, life-threatening drug dealers, irreversible money woes. Culminating in a desperate attempt at making a so-called "femdom" film. PERMANENT OBSCURITY: PART 3 - NO MAN'S LAND ... Whereupon Dolores and Serena find themselves in a place not expected. Namely, hell. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~: **Read [4 FREE book excerpts now!][9]** [**PERMANENT OBSCURITY**][10] Inspired by the underground sexploitation films of the 1960s, this bold updating of the "roughie" subgenre and lampoon of auteur filmmaking largely takes place in New York City's East Village (circa the Bush era), and it chronicles the rise and fall of a unique and intense relationship. Dolores and Serena, two chemically dependent, down-and-out artists set out to take control of their lives by making a fetish-noir/femdom movie. Of course, things don't exactly turn out as planned. "Ready-made for Russ Meyer--assuming, that is, if Meyer was around and still at his peak." **--Josh Alan Friedman,** author: TALES OF TIMES SQUARE, WHEN SEX WAS DIRTY "The American Baise-Moi!" **--Lynn Breedlove,** author: GODSPEED ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~: **Make this bohemian romp yours: [Amazon][11] or [B&N][12]** ![alt text][13] **[PERMANENT OBSCURITY by Richard Perez][14]** "Richard Perez has the ears of the angels--lend him yours." **--Barry Gifford,** author: WILD AT HEART, PERDITA DURANGO "Perez's is an exciting talent and his work goes far beyond most of what is published today." **--Henry Flesh,** author: MICHAEL and the Lambda Literary Award-winner, MASSAGE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~: PERMANENT OBSCURITY: PART 1 - "The Kinky Hook" PART 2 - "Strange Hungers" PART 3 - "No Man's Land" The trade paperback contains all 3 "episodes" or books also available separately from [Amazon][15]. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ **ABOUT THE AUTHOR:** ![alt text][16] Initially published small literary magazines, Richard Perez has also written for [*The New York Times*][17] (a newspaper he doesn't read.) His first novel, The Losers' Club (aka: The Losers' Club: Complete Restored Edition) has three foreign translations to date: [Korean][18], [Turkish][19], [Italian][20]. **[PERMANENT OBSCURITY: or a Cautionary Tale of Two Girls and Their Misadventures with Drugs, Pornography, and Death][21]** -- his second novel -- also reflects his infatuation with bohemia and willful nonconformists. PERMANENT OBSCURITY: [yours now][22]! "Notebook" for the novel: [PermanentObscurity.Com][23] ![alt text][24] About Richard Perez's first novel, **[THE LOSERS' CLUB][25]**, which is a romantic comedy set in downtown New York City of the 1990s: "Every generation must describe for itself what it means to be a young writer or artist struggling with anonymity and a mountain of rejection slips in a city like New York. Richard Perez's [THE LOSERS' CLUB][26] tracks the poet Martin Sierra's melancholy and yet somehow humorous and hopeful life with an acid, yet not unsympathetic, pen. Perez has written a sharp, quick-paced satire of the personal ads subculture and the generally doomed semi-relationships it leads to, the bizarre and manic club life, where slam-dancing and other dangerous sports fail to mask the chronic - one might say terminal - loneliness of the participants. I especially like how the kaleidoscopic whirl of people and objects energizes the author and delights the reader with an almost photographic sense of time and place." *
