Book review: Bob Smith's *Selfish and Perverse*. Mordent and irreverent, Bob Smith's sly, witty debut novel tells what happens when love gets in the way of art and sex threatens to derail love. Having recently moved to Los Angeles, a city that breathes in a "smoggy cloud of dashed hopes," aspiring twenty-something novelist Nelson Kunker is working as a writer's assistant for a comedy TV show . Selfish and Perverse Bob Smith. A brilliantly funny love triangle. Compulsive joker Nelson hasn't had a boyfriend for years, so is delighted when possible soul mate Roy asks him to join him for a summer of Alaskan salmon fishing. But then handsome Hollywood star . Much of Bob Smith's novel SELFISH PERVERSE is set in and around Anchorage, Alaska, where there is no IKEA store, enough to make me want to move there. The narrator is Nelson Kunker, from Los Angeles, who is stalled on a novel he has been writing for far too long. He meets Roy Briggs, a fisherman/archeology student from Alaska.5/5(6).
The fishing world of Coffee Point is an interesting setting, particularly for a gay love triangle, but all its merit is drowned out by endless insipid banter, as much gratuitous sex as Smith can squeeze in and a complete lack of plot. Less selfish perverse than slow pointless. Selfish And Perverse|Bob Smith, Works|Charles Churchill, Some curious flyers, creepers and swimmers|James Johonnot, The history of the reformation of the church of England (v. 4)|Gilbert Burnet. Book review: Bob Smith's *Selfish and Perverse*. Mordent and irreverent, Bob Smith's sly, witty debut novel tells what happens when love gets in the way of art and sex threatens to derail love. Having recently moved to Los Angeles, a city that breathes in a "smoggy cloud of dashed hopes," aspiring twenty-something novelist Nelson Kunker is.
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