{"product_id":"a-place-like-this-mark-s-king-9780595474752","title":"A Place Like This: A Memoir","description":"Once you've won a car on a game show, been an actor, owned a phone sex company, been infected with HIV, slept with a movie icon and developed a drug addiction, you've pretty much done the Hollywood thing.\u003cp\u003e In this true, first-person account of the 1980's, Los Angeles transforms an all-American boy from an actor in commercials plugging fast food to a gay phone line worker pushing fast sex. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e King experiences firsthand nearly every gay social milestone of an astonishing decade-drug use, the phone sex trade, the onset of AIDS, Rock Hudson, assisted suicide, anonymous encounters, the early development of AIDS organizations and activism, Magic Johnson's announcement-and shares his experiences with disarming humor and startling candor. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e AIDS eventually converts King's plunge into sex and drugs to an increasing awareness of mortality-and a renewed search for meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark S. King\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0595474756\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780595474752\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e iUniverse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/19\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d","brand":"Mark S. King","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44131253321983,"sku":"9780595474752","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cb378bf7-fb4d-4235-a9be-92ee4ff263ba.jpg?v=1687473828","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-place-like-this-mark-s-king-9780595474752","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}