George Kimball.com    Author & Raconteur
  Author & Raconteur Contact
 
Home
About
News
Events
Books
Links
Photos
Store
Contacts
 
 
 

Only Skin Deep
(Ophelia Press, New York, 1968)

New edition with foreword by James Grauerholz from iUniverse, Bloomington, Ind., 2011

Purchase from Amazon.com here

In 1968, under pressure from the De Gaulle regime and encouraged by recent U.S. Supreme Court Decisions, the legendary French pornographer Maurice Girodias relocated his famed Olympia Press from Paris to New York. The first titles published under the new Ophelia imprint included J.P. Donleavy's The Ginger Man, Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg's Candy, and Only Skin Deep, a hilarious satire on the genre by 24-year-old George Kimball.

"Only Skin Deep is a vicious and intolerable mockery of the
whole filth industry."
  - Hunter S. Thompson

"The only book I've ever read that had sticky pages."
  - Joe Flaherty

Manly Art
The Fighter Still Remains Four Kings
OSDnew