Midnight Cowboy (novel)Midnight Cowboy is a 1965 novel by James Leo Herlihy that chronicles the naïve Texan Joe Buck's odyssey from Texas to New York City, where he plans on realizing his dream of becoming a male prostitute servicing rich women.
Plot
The book opens with would-be stud-for-hire Joe Buck getting ready to leave his rural Texas town, recalling the events that set him upon his sordid path.
Joe's mother, who might or might not have been a prostitute, frequently leaves him with a succession of blondes, either his aunts or other prostitutes, until he is about 9 and she drops him off to live with his grandmother, Sally Buck. During these years he becomes sexually attracted to fleshy blondes.
During his mid-teens Joe loses his virginity to Annie, a girl who would regularly take on six boys at a time on a dirty mattress behind a movie theater screen, each waiting patiently in line for his turn. Joe was the first boy she ever enjoyed having sex with, leading to a secret relationship that is squelched when one of Annie's many jealous “users
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