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The Beat - Life on the Streets (Paperback)
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The Beat - Life on the Streets (Paperback)
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Loot Price R254
Discovery Miles 2 540
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Who are the women who walk the beat in Dublin's red-light
districts? How did they get there? Why do they stay? What happens
when they try to leave? What are their lives really like? The Beat:
Life on the Streets in a fascinating, disturbing account of the
lives of sixteen women and their struggle for surival in Dublin's
underworld. Haunted by the drug-related death of his lover Seema,
herself a 'working girl', David Fine decided to confront his grief
head-on - journeying to the heart of an invisible Ireland to find
out what it means to be a prostitute. Working as a taxi driver,
Fine got to know the women on the streets, unveiling every aspect
of their harrowing lives. Their stories command attention and
compassion on every page of this revealing book. Fine describes how
these women - alternately raging or gentle, brutal or loving,
vicious or simply wounded - destroy themselves, how their
personalites crash and collapse, driven by the drugs coursing
through their veins. Here are Dublin's 'working girls' in their own
words. Imelda is fierce, and fiercely loves her two daughters.
Sorcha is so strung out on heroin she eats her own clothes. Una
will do anything to avoid sex. Teresa was gang-raped at the age of
eleven. Despite it all, these women continue to live and love and
dream of a better world. The Beat gives voice to the voiceless -
Fine's admiration for their courage shining through. LIke Jim
Carrol in The Basketball Diaries and Scorsese in Taxi Driver, he
sees human dignity and beauty in life's darkest corners.
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