Who Wrote the Book of Love?

by Lee A. Siegel

Who Wrote the Book of Love? is acclaimed novelist Lee Siegel's comedic chronicle of the sexual life of an American boy in Southern California in the 1950s. Starting at the beginning of the decade, in the year that Stalin announced that the Soviet Union had developed an atomic bomb, the book opens with a child's first memory of himself. Closing at the end of the decade, when Pat Boone's guide to dating, 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty, topped...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226757005
• ISBN13: 9780226757001
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

best book ever

Who Wrote the Book of Love? Lee Siegel did! I loved it and continue to buy copies for all my friends. This is a great book that will have you laughing out loud!

who read the book of love?

it's like what we'd have if henry miller had written 'dick and jane' or if 'the little rascals' were x-rated. raunchy and innocent as only a prepubescent boy can be. you will find yourself recalling your own long forgotten memories of sexual discoveries.