Shock Proof • Vintage by Marijane Meaker • 1972 • Hardcover W/ Dust Jacket Book

1st Edition,“Shock Proof”, by Marijane Meaker 1972 hardcover with dust jacket. This book is in MINT condition with NO tears, stains, or markings in any of the pages!! The publisher is Little, Brown & Company. This novel is about a teenage boy, Sidney Skate, exploring sex and freedom. Sidney Skate considers himself shockproof!! Sydney just graduated from boarding high school in Manhattan. Sydney is obsessed with sex & he is memorized from all the books he has read about different sex scenes. Sydney comes home to live with his mother that continues to live her fast-paced life running an ad agency and managing the crises amongst her circle of upper-crust lesbians friends. She somehow thinks that Sydney is innocent of all this, although he has been aware since a young age that his mother and her friends were different. He has played along with her ploy, although he's never let on that he knows. He spends his summer days caring for snakes at the local pet shop before leaving for college .Far from throwing himself into work, Sydney can't seem to keep his thoughts from wandering to women. When he's called to help remove a snake from a bathtub that belongs to the gorgeous and sophisticated Alison Gray, everything changes. But nothing could prepare him for his mother who is pursing the SAME young woman that he his!! He has played along with her ploy, coming-of-age story captures the timeless ecstasies and struggles of adolescence and lesbian culture during 1970’s.