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• Marty Beckerman – Generation SLUTDescription:S.L.U.T. is Beckerman’s acronym for Sexually Liberated Urban Teens, and in this outrageous, chilling blend of fact and fiction, the 20-year-old author characterizes his view of his generation: hypersexual, emotionally vacant, and disturbingly tolerant of abuse.
• Beckerman sets his story in a high-school social scene in which parties are seemingly joyless orgies of detached sex.
• Naive, sensitive Max is an anomaly, unlike his crass friend Brett.
• Julia is a new girl with soul and integrity Trevor is a precocious young tycoon, adored by his parents, who is actually a rapist and a pornographer.
• The slight story about Max’s first crush and Trevor’s profound villainy is overpowered by Beckerman’s purposeful unveiling of the vicious social climate: there’s an extremely graphic gang rape, several kids attempt suicide, and parents are caricatures of ineffectuality.