Girl, Undressed
Autor Ruth Fowleren Limba Engleză Paperback – mai 2009
A young British woman-broke and out of luck-does battle with Manhattan's underworld of dancers, drugs, and the sex industry
Ruth Fowler is a twenty-five-year-old Brit with a Cambridge degree and a middle-class background who arrives in New York City with dreams of becoming a journalist. But getting a work visa in post-9/11 America proves to be tricky. It doesn't take long for funds and incentive to run out-sending Fowler to the heart of Manhattan's dark underbelly of strip clubs and the sex trade, where as her alter ego "Mimi" she works as a dancer for more than two years. Both raw and shocking, Girl, Undressed tells the harrowing story of her descent into darkness, the young and wealthy Eton-educated Englishman with whom she perilously falls in love, and her revelatory journey back to herself.
Ruth Fowler is a twenty-five-year-old Brit with a Cambridge degree and a middle-class background who arrives in New York City with dreams of becoming a journalist. But getting a work visa in post-9/11 America proves to be tricky. It doesn't take long for funds and incentive to run out-sending Fowler to the heart of Manhattan's dark underbelly of strip clubs and the sex trade, where as her alter ego "Mimi" she works as a dancer for more than two years. Both raw and shocking, Girl, Undressed tells the harrowing story of her descent into darkness, the young and wealthy Eton-educated Englishman with whom she perilously falls in love, and her revelatory journey back to herself.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780143115656
ISBN-10: 0143115650
Pagini: 265
Dimensiuni: 128 x 203 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10: 0143115650
Pagini: 265
Dimensiuni: 128 x 203 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Penguin Publishing Group
Recenzii
" Excellent . . . Fowler's excoriating narrative quite effectively undermines perceptions of sex work as a viable form of postmodern female empowerment."
-The Guardian (London)
" Eyebrow-raising revelations abound in this sharp, racy, and relentlessly candid tale."
-Booklist (starred)
-The Guardian (London)
" Eyebrow-raising revelations abound in this sharp, racy, and relentlessly candid tale."
-Booklist (starred)
Notă biografică
Ruth Fowler was raised in North Wales and graduated from Cambridge University. Under different pseudonyms she has written for various publications including The Guardian, The Observer, The Village Voice and Wired. As the strip club dancer “Mimi” she was the subject of a feature article in The New York Times.