TY - SER
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - physicians
KW - psychiatrists
KW - high schools
KW - hippies
KW - hitchhiking
KW - addiction
KW - Jewish Americans
AU - Jerry Stahl
AB - Bobby Stark, 15, is back home in Pittsburgh after being expelled from an eastern prep school.  When a local teacher's strike frees them, Bobby and his ex-Hare Krishna girlfriend hitchhike West to San Francisco.
C1 - 1970s
C3 - Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Monongahela River; Ohio River; Pittsburgh; Downtown; Point State Park; Oakland; Western Psychiatric Hospital; South Side; Jones & Laughlin Steel
C4 - Literary; Comedy; Young Adult; Coming-of-Age; Road; Historical; Adventure
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - Bobby Stark, 15, is back home in Pittsburgh after being expelled from an eastern prep school.  When a local teacher's strike frees them, Bobby and his ex-Hare Krishna girlfriend hitchhike West to San Francisco.
PB - William Morrow
PP - New York
PY - 1999
RN - Jerry Stahl (1954— ), born and raised in Pittsburgh's Brookline neighborhood, is an actor, comedian, screenwriter, and novelist. His memoir about his own drug addiction, <em>Permanent Midnight</em>, was adapted into a 1998 movie starring Ben Stiller. He lives in Los Angeles.
EP - 341 p.
TI - Perv⎯A Love Story
ER -