PERMANENT OBSCURITY, or the full title: "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)'', published in 2010 by Ludlow Press, is
neo-sexploitation novel and dark comedy written by New York Times contributor, Richard Perez, author of The Losers' Club, a novel set in the East Village in the 1990'
s, which has been translated into three languages:
Italian , Turkish, and Korean. The story of PERMANENT OBSCURITY, broken into three parts: "The
Kinky Hook," "Strange Hungers," "No Man's Land" -- 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. The main characters, 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.
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)
* 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
